Ofwat tags Welsh Water scheme for direct procurement

Ofwat has issued an amended designation of Welsh Water’s Cwm Taf Water Supply Strategy as a project to be delivered via direct procurement for customers (DPC).

The scheme involves the creation of a new water treatment plant and associated works (including connections and decommissioning works) in South Wales.

Ofwat first designated the project for DPC in December 2022. Since then Welsh Water has developed its options analysis on the detailed scope of the scheme and paused its planning application in the meantime. Welsh Water requested that Ofwat amend the scope of the initial designation, and Ofwat has now amended the schedule to the original notice to remove some of the detail as to scope, as that scope is now subject to further consideration.

Two other schemes are currently designated as DPC: United Utilities’ Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme, and Anglian Water’s Middlegate (formerly Elsham) Transfer and Treatment Scheme.