Westbourne Grove Flood Alleviation Scheme

Barhale were awarded the scheme by Thames Water to alleviate flooding within the Bayswater area of London.

The scheme involved the connection of the existing Victorian sewers to a new pumping station from which discharge would be carried via a new rising main to another existing brick built egg shaped sewer.

The pumping station was designed for storage of a 1 in 15 year storm. Discharge passed through a reinforced concrete valve chamber some 6m long, 3m wide and 3m deep, to a 600mm concrete outlet pipe laid in open cut trenches to the existing Victorian brick built sewer at Inverness Terrace, a narrow road with a number of Embassies to one side.