Water companies submit strategic schemes for RAPID scrutiny

Water companies have submitted fifteen strategic water resource schemes to the Regulators’ Alliance for Progressing Infrastructure Development (RAPID) at standard Gate One (see table).

Joining the 14 established proposals was a new scheme from Anglian Water and Cambridge Water, for a Fenland Reservoir which will support resilience and chalk stream health in the east.

RAPID will now consider the submissions and decide on:

• whether the solution and options within it should progress to gate two;

• applying incentives and allowable costs;

• whether alternative and/ or additional solutions should enter

the process; and

• what is required for gate two

submissions.

Draft decisions are expected in

September and final decisions in

November.