Veolia Water Central

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Veolia Water Central Limited
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Water supply
Founded1994 (merger of Colne, Rickmansworth and Lee Valley Water companies)
Defunct2012 (merged into Affinity Water)
HeadquartersHatfield, England
Key people
Richard Bienfait (Managing Director) Richard Brimble (Director of Organisation Development)
Parent Veolia Environnement (through Veolia Water)
Website central.veoliawater.co.uk

Veolia Water Central (formerly Three Valleys Water) was a privately owned company supplying water to Hertfordshire and parts of Surrey, North London and Bedfordshire, in England. It was owned by Veolia Environnement, a French company with international interests in the water, waste management, energy and transportation sectors.

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Supply area

The area served lay to the north and west of London, including parts of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Middlesex and Surrey. [1]

The company depended heavily upon the local chalk aquifer for its supplies. Eventually due to a combination of lower than average rainfall and growing demand, the aquifer became depleted. This affected the environment as some watercourses become seasonal and domestic users were subject to drought restrictions, for the first time for many years. This may have been a contributing factor in the outbreak of Cryptosporidium parvum in March 1997 when Three Valleys had to ask 300,000 consumers in Hertfordshire and thousands more in the London boroughs of Harrow and Brent to boil water. The health warning also caused the closure of schools in affected areas. The source was never isolated though several water supply boreholes in the chalk aquifer between St Albans and Bushey contained the pathogen. [2] [3]

References

  1. ↑ Three Valleys - Our Supply Area
  2. ↑ The GSI Groundwater Newsletter - No. 32 November 1997
  3. ↑ "That was 1997, that was". News Shopper. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
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