New Infrastructure

[Superfly1967]

As part of a £1 million improvement programme, organisers of the festival have improved water and sewage facilities, including the installation of two underground reservoirs.

The ‘Worthy Wells’, underground reservoirs, each hold one million litres of fresh water. Once both reservoirs are full, Bristol Water will deliver up to 25 litres a second all day and night prior to the event, enabling the site’s water supply to be completely self-sufficient.

GPS PE Pipe Systems will supply 160 mm Excel (PE100) pipe to extend the existing main ring which pumps water to the site, enabling more points around the Festival to access water. In-house contractors constructed the pipeline largely by welding the 100 m pipe coils. With service connections to be made at frequent intervals, the installers fitted coiled pipe lengths with 115 Durafuse electrofusion couplings.

Phil Miller, Glastonbury Festivals infrastructure manager, said: “With very tight deadlines, the relative speed of commissioning the PE system was the key factor. Even with a few minor setbacks, the work has been completed on time and the result is all worth it.”

Caen Hill lock gates move to Glastonbury:

Dale Marshall, British Waterways’ works planner, Kennet & Avon Canal said:"The Caen Hill Flight of Locks is an iconic structure that makes an impressive mark on the Wiltshire countryside, combining industrial heritage and wildlife. The lock gates that we removed as part of our works programme may have come to the end of their working life in the water, but there’s plenty of life left in them. What better place for them to be used than at another iconic location, Glastonbury."British Waterways takes the phrase 'reduce, reuse, recycle' seriously, and this partnership with the Glastonbury Festival will mean that the wooden gates will help even more people have a great day out. Hopefully visitors to the festival site will be intrigued as to where the gates came from and come and visit their former home, during this the canal’s 200th birthday year."

Phil Miller, Operations Director, Glastonbury Festival said:"The lock gates are impressive structures with a great heritage and story to tell. We are delighted that they will be given a new lease of life with us at the festival. The gates are going to be used to build a special bridge in memory of Bella Churchill, who was instrumental in developing the festival."It’s great that we can work with British Waterways to ensure that we reuse and recycle materials and make the most of the resources available."

[Pinhead]

Cool one - like the resuse of the lock gates - quite familiar with that monumental sequence of locks on the K&A canal.

The new water reservoirs I remember being installed last year - there were pictures on here and on the the other site at the time showing an engineer standing inside them, unless they've added new ones again this year.

Good news is that any investment in the sites infrastructure helps to enforce that they are comitted to keeping the festival going forward into the future.

[Steve P]

Working in the water industry, the first bit is of quite nerdy interest to me. Now to find out how to bid for the work at Glasto.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

I wonder if this means they won't have to put as muck chlirine in the water in future. It can taste rank in some parts of the ring main

[Sarah-Lou]

My Boyf works at GPS Pipe and he packed up some pipe and parts to be sent to the Festival...At the time we didn't have tickets and he said he was gutted not be going even more!

We then went to visit the site and saw the pipe ready to be installed!!

We've got tickets now!!!