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it’s a boring job – but someone’s gotta do it

hydraulically pushing the pipe through
the flooded tunnel. When that happens,
it will be a world record-breaker – the
longest hydraulically inserted pipeline
in the world.

Replacing the pipeline beneath
the river will ensure we continue
to keep millions of homes
and businesses across the UK
supplied with gas

Benefits of the project
Replacing the pipeline beneath the
river will ensure we continue to keep
millions of homes and businesses A WELDER IN FULL PROTECTIVE GEAR WELDS TWO SECTIONS OF THE NEW PIPELINE TOGETHER
across the UK supplied with gas.
Tunnelling beneath the bed of the river and other environmental factors Next steps
significantly reduces the environmental are important considerations when The next steps involve dismantling and
impact that replacing the pipeline in planning a pipeline route and we’ve removing the tunnel boring machine
the river bed would otherwise have had. taken time to look carefully at these and its supporting service pipes and
Other alternatives would have required issues to help shape our plans and the cables ahead of preparing the tunnel
far longer routes for the replacement arrangements we’ve put in place to for the world record-breaking pipeline
pipeline, with substantially greater manage the work. insertion in spring.
environmental impacts and costs. A new pipeline in a tunnel beneath the
River Humber presents the least potential For more information, visit
Impact on the Humber River environment for disruption to the local environment, www.riverhumberpipeline.com or to
Great care has been taken to consider resulting in fewer overall impacts when view a video of the boring machine’s
any potential environmental effects compared with much longer alternative incredible journey, logon to IGEMtv
of the project. Ecology, archaeology, options that avoid the River Humber. at bit.ly/IGEM-tv

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