A police motorbike escort was sent to accompany the return of repaired electric motors to the Mythe water treatment plant in Tewkesbury, following the floods in July which left thousands without running water.
ABB Motor Service Partner, Central Electrical of Knowsley on Merseyside was called upon by Severn Trent to salvage the critical motors which power the filter pumps; return them to the companys workshops; and repair the damage as quickly as possible, in an effort to restore water to hundreds of thousands of homes.
Twenty four motors, ranging in frame size from 90 to a number of old, large imperial frame motors used on the filtration pumps, needed to be taken out. The removal from site posed some very difficult lifting challenges due to limited space.
“We managed to remove, repair and return all motors within 48 hours,” Shaun Sutton, director of Central Electric says “Initially they were going to fly the motors from our plant in Knowsley to Tewkesbury in an RAF Chinook helicopter. The motors we repair are an essential part of the water treatment process, and many of the Mythe ones have been under water.”
More than 300,000 people had been told they faced up to two weeks without water at home after the Mythe treatment plant flooded, however, through the tremendous efforts of all concerned water supplies were restored after just one week.
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