Investment schemes

More than £100 million is being invested to extend the site in Avonmouth, allowing us to meet the demands of a rapidly-expanding city.

We’ve spent £8.5 million enhancing the rural water recycling centre at Compton Bassett to the east of Calne in Wiltshire, increasing the amount of stormwater we can store and our capacity to treat wastewater.

We’ve completed a £50 million project at Durleigh Water Treatment Centre to provide an improved water supply to customers in the Bridgwater area.

We’ve come up with an innovative solution to resolve the issue of groundwater causing the flooding of domestic properties in the Wiltshire community of Hanging Langford.

We’re investing more than £30 million to enhance the Holdenhurst Water Recycling Centre on the outskirts of Bournemouth.

We've constructed a new 6.5km pipeline that allows us to direct waste more efficiently around North Bristol to our water recycling centre in Avonmouth.

As construction of a bridge over the River Avon to provide a permanent access to the Mead Lane site nears completion, a two-year £34 million expansion of the water recycling centre is getting under way in early 2024.

Wessex Water has constructed two new reedbeds at Shrewton’s Water Recycling Centre in Wiltshire to help naturally treat the increasing amount of stormwater arriving at the site.

As part of our water recycling centre extension plans, we want to bring the Mere Bank into better condition.

Our £1.3 million project in the east of Bath is helping to safeguard local homes and businesses from flooding by easing pressure on the sewer system.

We’ve invested £800,000 to protect Dorset’s historic Jurassic Coast by cutting the discharge of untreated stormwater near Chesil Beach.

We’re spending nearly £2 million to protect the picturesque River Avon running through the historic market town in west Wiltshire from the discharge of untreated water.