• Essential work to maintain safe and reliable gas supplies completed seven weeks ahead of schedule
• Project programme carefully designed to be delivered as smoothly as possible
• Work will help ensure the local community keep on enjoying safe and reliable gas supplies for cooking and heating
National Grid has completed work to replace ageing gas mains in Blake Hall Road, Wanstead seven weeks earlier than planned.
The work, which also involved replacing service pipes to some properties, began in June and wrappeduplast week with road resurfacing completed over the weekend.
The project will help ensure local people continue to enjoy safe and reliable gas supplies for cooking and heating in future years.
Project Engineer Paul Illingworth said: “I’d like to thank the local community and Redbridge Council for their understanding and cooperation while we planned and carried out this essential work”.
“The work was planned in close discussion with Redbridge Council and others including TfL and the local police to make sure we delivered it with as little disruption as possible.”
Efforts to minimise any inconvenience caused by the work included inserting the new pipes into the old mains wherever possible which reduced the need for digging. Careful planning also resulted in work with the potential for causing the most traffic disruption being scheduled for the school summer holiday season, when roads are generally quieter, where possible.
Mr Illingworth added: “The new gas mains we’ve spent the summer putting in should give years of safe and reliable service and make sure people keep on having gas for cooking and heating.”
More information on National Grid’s gas mains replacement work can be found at www.bettergaspipes.co.uk
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