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Wolstenholme Elmy Way, formerly known as the Congleton Link Road through its development, is a £90million project that will link the A534 Sandbach Road to the A536 Macclesfield Road creating an approximate 5.5km bypass around the north-western edge of Congleton.
The link road will reduce town centre traffic congestion, cut pollution and improve air quality, benefitting people’s health, the environment and the town, which has seen reduced inward investment and retain existing businesses.
The scheme will bring economic and social regeneration to the local area by supporting new development sites and improving access to local business centres.
The route, which has been constructed by contractor Graham Construction, will be known as the Wolstenholme Elmy Way, after the famous pioneering educationalist and votes for women campaigner, Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy.
All Pump Solutions was chosen by Graham Construction to supply the pumping solutions for the project with a number of unique challenges in an area subject to a high water table. We designed, installed, and commissioned two separate pumping stations.
The first solution was to design, install and commission a type 2 foul water pumping station that would serve a small development with appropriate emergency storage. This would meet the requirements of the sewers for adoption addendum set out by United Utilities. This was achieved by using two pumps that allow for a flow rate of approximately 4.49 litres/second 52 metres horizontally with 3 metres vertically.
In addition to this, we also supplied, installed and commissioned a surface water pumping station. Which, whilst it was not adoptable, there was the additional challenge of being situated to provide effective flood alleviation for the newly built link road. Therefore, allowing drivers to make the best use of the road regardless of the weather conditions.
This pumping station makes use of our Heavy Specification GRP+ Vertical Chamber and DN200 pipework to deliver a flow rate of 41.54 litres/second along a rising main of 440m.
All of this was achieved, despite the added pressures and challenges of delivering a large-scale project during the Covid pandemic, which affected meant we and many of our suppliers and partners had to take special measures to protect workers.
As the Tollbar Island is one of the most heavily congested junctions in the West Midlands region, it was imperative to ease the traffic flow.
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