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SPP Pumps Ltd

For more than 140 years SPP Pumps has been a leading designer and manufacturer of centrifugal pumps and associated systems, a global principal in design, supply and servicing of pumps, pump packages and equipment for a wide range of applications and industry sectors.

This includes water and wastewater treatment, oil and gas production, airports, hotels, construction, mining and for large industrial plants. Low life cost and environmental considerations are fundamental design priorities.

With its exceptional expertise and experience, the company’s robust, trusted engineering has provided critical performance across the water industry. As a UK manufacturer, SPP are a leading supplier of clean and wastewater pumps to the Water Industry and has long established Framework agreements with many of the major Utilities throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.

SPP Pumps has extensive experience of designing and delivering highly efficient ‘Pump as Turbine’ (PaT) solutions capable of rapid return on investment. Small hydro-electric power production provides a convenient, cost-effective source of renewable energy.

Witches Oak WTW: Green Recovery - Decarbonising Water Resources (2024)

The challenges of designing and constructing the Witches Oak programme of works on multiple sites to a condensed timescale

Durleigh WTC (2023)

In 2019, Wessex Water launched a £51 million project to upgrade the Durleigh Water Treatment Centre (WTC) in Somerset, which had reached the end of its operational life. This project was crucial in maintaining the delivery of high-quality drinking water to a population of 44,500 and was part of the company’s long-term water supply strategy […]

Hanningfield WTW - Washwater System (2023)

Located 5 miles south of Chelmsford, Hanningfield Water Treatment Works (WTW) is the largest works operated by Essex & Suffolk Water (ESW). The WTW, which has a peak output of 220 MLD, draws water from the 26,000 ML Hanningfield Reservoir to supply a large part of south Essex. The washwater system is over 50 years […]

Tophill Low WTW (2023)

Tophill Low Water Treatment Works (WTW) is a 68 Ml/d water production plant situated in the East Riding of Yorkshire, approximately six miles from Driffield. The works was originally constructed in 1959 and upgraded in the 1990s to the current configuration. The treatment process presently includes pH correction, ozonation, coagulation, DAF clarification, rapid gravity filtration, […]

Hanningfield WTW - Washwater System (2022)

Hanningfield Water Treatment Works (WTW) is the largest water treatment facility operated in the Essex & Suffolk Water supply area. It has been expanded over numerous phases and is currently in need of improvements to its washwater treatment plant in response to changing influent water quality. Hanningfield WTW draws water from Hanningfield Reservoir which is, […]

Church Wilne WTW (2020)

Situated on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border, Church Wilne WTW serves 600,000 Severn Trent (ST) customers in the East Midlands. Built in 1967 to extract and treat 27 ML/day from the River Derwent, the works has been extended twice to 135 ML/day meeting the needs of both a growing population and increased water quality standards. However, the […]

Durleigh WTC (2020)

Durleigh Water Treatment Centre is located approximately 2km west of Bridgwater, Somerset and is Wessex Water’s second largest surface water treatment works serving a population of 44,500. The site was originally designed to treat up to 28.5 Ml/d, with water drawn down from the 959,000m3 Durleigh Impounding Reservoir. Raw water quality has deteriorated in recent […]

Syleham WTW (2020)

Essex and Suffolk Water’s Syleham Water Treatment Works is located in the north-east part of Hartismere in Suffolk. The works supplies water to the north side of Eye and to Fressingfield Water Tower, which in turn supplies approximately 4,000 properties (10,000 customers) throughout a number of villages. It was originally constructed in 1940 and raw […]

Bryn Cowlyd WTW (2019)

Bryn Cowlyd Water Treatment Works is located south of the village of Dolgarrog in county of Conwy. The works is gravity fed with raw water from Llyn Cowlyd, 350m above and approximately three miles south west of the works, in the Carneddau mountain range in Snowdonia National Park. The old treatment works was commissioned in […]

Cheddar Pumping Station (2018)

The Southern Resilience Scheme is a new £27m water infrastructure project that provides improved security of water supply to a population of approximately 280,000 people across Bristol Water’s supply area. The scheme comprises a new 30km ductile iron main of 600mm and 700mm diameters, as well as the upgrade of the existing pumping station at […]

Irton WTW (2018)

Yorkshire Water’s Irton Water Treatment Works (WTW) is located 5.5km southwest of Scarborough in North Yorkshire. The WTW abstracts water from an aquifer via numerous boreholes and supplies two local service reservoirs; Springhill and Low Mount, which feed Scarborough and the surrounding area. Demand profiles are seasonably variable. The site has an abstraction licence for […]

Minworth STW - Thermal Hydrolysis Plant (2018)

Minworth STW is Severn Trent’s largest sewage treatment works and serves a population equivalent of 1.75 million from Birmingham with full flow to treatment of 1,070Ml/d. The works treats sludge arising from a population equivalent of 2.3 million which is made up of indigenous sludge plus imported sludge from the nearby Coleshill STW and various […]

Affinity Water Pesticide Removal (2017)

Affinity Water’s largest water treatment works (WTW) is being upgraded as part of their AMP6 business plan to ensure they continue to provide a robust treatment solution for the removal of pesticides from water abstracted from the River Thames. The scope of the works is to increase the granular activated carbon empty bed contact time […]

Horsley WTW (2017)

Northumbrian Water’s Horsley WTW serves around 800,000 people in the Newcastle and Tyneside area. The original works was constructed in 1977 and last extended in 2003. It draws its supply from the nearby River Tyne at Ovingham and the Whittle Dene complex of reservoirs fed from Kielder Water. The existing works has a capacity of […]

Minworth STW - Thermal Hydrolysis Plant (2017)

Minworth STW is Severn Trent Water’s largest sewage treatment works and serves a population equivalent of 1.75 million from Birmingham with full flow to treatment of 1,070Ml/d. The works treats sludge arising from a population equivalent of 2.3 million which is made up of indigenous sludge plus imported sludge from the nearby Coleshill STW and […]

Oswestry WTW (2016)

United Utilities’ Oswestry WTW is located near to the market town of Oswestry, Shropshire on the England/Wales border. The original works became operational in 1892, near the end of the Victorian era, in response to the growing need for wholesome clean drinking water to Liverpool. It is a large works which treats raw water from […]

Woodmansterne WTW (2016)

Woodmansterne WTW is being upgraded as part of Sutton and East Surrey Water’s (now SES Water) AMP6 investment to secure water supplies for existing and future customers throughout its supply area. The scope of works is to increase the treatment capacity to a maximum raw water flow of 50Mld. Doosan Enpure has been appointed as […]

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