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Yorkshire Water Work

Closely With PMP Utilities

Todmorden Pipe Bridge - Specialist

Engineering via Rope Access

managing the rigging to safely lower the of the public using and living on the
engineer to the work site. canal, as well as road users crossing the
bridge.
The process involved the removal of
the cowl, isolation and removal of the The benefits of this ‘Outside the
leaking air valve. The cowl was then Bridge’ thinking included:
raised safely back up to the bridge
platform and the replacement valve • A quick response time and reduced
fitted. Once the repair was completed, lead time to access the site
the cowl on the second air valve • Reduced time on site and impact on
was removed and the isolation valve local residents and businesses
operated to enable assessment of its • Reduced impact on the ‘canal
general condition. Both cowls were then
replaced. community’ – walkers, cyclists, barge
owners and anglers
As the repair was completed without • A significant cost saving
the need for undertaking a network • Significant leakage saving
isolation, there was no impact to • A safer option in comparison to
Yorkshire Water’s ‘Customer Minutes
SKILLED ENGINEERING & ROPE ACCESS Lost’ measure. Disruption was kept traditional methods.
to an absolute minimum for members
CAPABILITY MINIMISES DISRUPTION AND

REDUCES LEAKAGE AN EXCELLENT OUTCOME FOR EVERYONE!

PMP Utilities (PMP), a leading traditional network isolation and access
provider of asset refurbishment, methods. Traditional methods would
renewal and repair services have required a scaffold platform to be
in hazardous, challenging built up from an adjoining canal tow-
environments, has successfully path and would have necessitated the
completed the rope access repair bridge’s closure and required agreement
of a leaking air valve at Todmorden, with the Canal and River Trust.
West Yorkshire on a 12” Pipe Bridge
over the Trans-Pennine canal Specialist access equipment, including
linking Leeds and Manchester. a high directional rigging system, was
used to enable access over the bridge
PMP, a part of M Group Services, without any stresses on the bridge
was appointed through the WSA structure itself. The access equipment
contract to deliver a rope access was secured in place by twin lines with
solution as an alternative to an on-site PMP rope access supervisor

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