A drop in session has been organised by Severn Trent to be held today to give members of the public the opportunity to learn more about the project.
The company will be replacing old water pipes beneath the B4361 with brand new ones to help reduce the possibility of leaks and bursts happening in the future.
More than £600,000 will be invested in the work as part of a £7.8m scheme to replace almost 50km worth of water pipes in the south Shropshire area around Ludlow.
Dave Cottom, who is leading the project for Severn Trent, said: “We know the pipes in this area have been in place for a long time and we don’t want to be in a position where we regularly have to come out to fix leaks and bursts because we know there’s nothing worse for our customers than losing their water supply without warning.
“That’s why we’ve taken the decision to install brand new water pipes in Ludlow that will provide a really reliable water supply for generations to come and now we want to meet with as many local people as possible to share our plans and make them aware of where and when we’ll be working.” A community drop-in session will take place at the Village Hall at Richards Castle from 4pm to 7pm.
Work is scheduled to start on February 12.
Mr Cottom added: “We know how important it is for our customers to have access to fresh drinking water whenever they need it so this is really important work for the people of Ludlow.
“Engineers from our contractor Amey will work as quickly as possible to minimise disruption and we’ll keep access to homes and businesses clear as much as we can,” said Mr Cottom.
A fully signposted diversion will be in place.
The scheme forms part of Severn Trent’s commitment to investing in its infrastructure which will see the equivalent of £1,400 invested for every home and business it serves between 2015 and 2020.

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA — Officials broke ground Wednesday on the $92 million North Hollywood West Groundwater Treatment Project that aims to clean up and restore the use of groundwater in the San Fernando Valley.
The North Hollywood West site is the first of four planned remediation projects in the San Fernando Valley and is expected to be completed by early 2020.
Subscribe Garcetti’s office said the remediation of the San Fernando Valley Groundwater Basin advances two key goals of the mayor’s Sustainable City pLAn by reducing the purchase of imported water by 50 percent by 2025 and producing 50 percent of Los Angeles’ water supply locally by 2035.
The San Fernando Valley Groundwater Basin is an aquifer that can provide drinking water for more than 800,000 people, but parts of it are contaminated by industrial pollution dating back to the 1940s, Garcetti’s office said.
"This is such a high-value project for people across the city of Los Angeles," Krekorian said.
"For too long, we haven’t been able to utilize the San Fernando Groundwater Basin because of contamination and pollution.
With the North Hollywood West Groundwater Treatment Project, Los Angeles will finally be able to take full advantage of this groundwater resource."
"A local, clean and reliable water supply for the San Fernando Valley is long overdue," Martinez said.
Decades of development have contaminated the valley’s groundwater, forcing families to rely on more costly sources from outside the city.
City News Service; Photo: Shutterstock

Even though the city is directly connected to a massive water source, means of filtering that water are scarce and clean water is hard to come by for many of Entebbe’s residents.
One student involved with their Global Internship Program is Amelia Morrison, a senior geographic science major at JMU.
Morrison works with H4O’s clean water program, which has provided over 220,000 people in 15 different countries, including Uganda, with clean water by building wells and implementing filtration systems.
“Uganda’s such a place that’s so rich in culture and love and there’s so many people that are just so giving of themselves and so hospitable,” Shellabarger said.
That’s why Morrison is coordinating her own fundraiser for a clean water system in Entebbe.
“So it’s really a powerful thing to create partnerships with people who care, even if they’re not focused on the same issue as you.” Uganda is just one of many places struggling during the clean water crisis.
Around the world, more than 840 million people don’t have safe drinking water.
“We definitely feel like it’s something that we take for granted here in the United States,” Grajales said.
“I definitely feel like JMU is a place where everyone’s kind of trying to do something to make the world a better place,” Grajales said.
And the feeling that comes when you achieve that is really, really a good feeling.

Flaw 1: An unelected three-person board called the Iowa Utilities Board approved the permit giving Dakota Access the “right” to take private property from farmers and put their unwanted crude oil pipeline through their land.
Flaw 2: Through the most contorted logic, the IUB said that Dakota Access’ crude oil pipeline met the test of “public convenience and necessity."
When you threaten the very necessities of life, especially water, there is no sane way to argue that a crude oil pipeline is safe or a necessity.
The Iowa Legislature should clarify that “public convenience and necessity” does not include anything that threatens public health and the environment.
Flaw 3: The IUB gave the power of eminent domain to Dakota Access to take the land of farmers and other landowners against their will.
If a corporation such as Dakota Access wants to site their pipeline, they should get permission and the prior agreement of the landowners.
Flaw 4: The IUB had no enforcement mechanisms to ensure Dakota Access kept its promises.
Then there were the construction flaws.
Dakota Access was prohibited from doing construction in wet conditions.
The Iowa Legislature must pass legislation that specifies if the pipeline leaks and contaminates any water, the permit will be revoked.

Flaw 1: An unelected three-person board called the Iowa Utilities Board approved the permit giving Dakota Access the “right” to take private property from farmers and put their unwanted crude oil pipeline through their land.
Flaw 2: Through the most contorted logic, the IUB said that Dakota Access’ crude oil pipeline met the test of “public convenience and necessity."
When you threaten the very necessities of life, especially water, there is no sane way to argue that a crude oil pipeline is safe or a necessity.
The Iowa Legislature should clarify that “public convenience and necessity” does not include anything that threatens public health and the environment.
Flaw 3: The IUB gave the power of eminent domain to Dakota Access to take the land of farmers and other landowners against their will.
If a corporation such as Dakota Access wants to site their pipeline, they should get permission and the prior agreement of the landowners.
Flaw 4: The IUB had no enforcement mechanisms to ensure Dakota Access kept its promises.
Then there were the construction flaws.
Dakota Access was prohibited from doing construction in wet conditions.
The Iowa Legislature must pass legislation that specifies if the pipeline leaks and contaminates any water, the permit will be revoked.

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has said that nearly half a million households in the city’s slums have no access to water or the water available to them is not sufficient to meet their basic needs.
He added that majority of those living in the informal settlements do not have enough money to buy water even when supplies exist.
Water sold in the areas is the most expensive in the county, said the governor.
Mr Sonko said that his administration is working towards addressing the disparity, adding that they are also looking at sealing loopholes where nearly half of the water distributed in the city is lost through non-billing theft.
“This is anticipated to culminate into enactment of the Nairobi City County Water and Sanitation Policy and Bill that will provide policy and legislative framework for delivery of water and sanitation services within Nairobi.
“I appeal to all citizens of goodwill to support this legislative process that will promote access to safe water and sanitation services to all residents of Nairobi,” said the governor.
But even as the county works towards ensuring that every resident of Nairobi receives clean drinking water and has adequate sanitation, there are fears of a new water rationing programme returning to the city as the reservoirs holding supplies continue to drop.
Ndakaini dam produces 430,000 cubic metres of water a day, which is about 84 per cent of water supply to Nairobi residents and holds about 70,000,000 cubic metres at full storage.
Mr Muguna said that the situation has forced them to ration water through the equitable distribution programme to ensure every customer gets water but added that he is optimistic that the April long rains will restore normalcy.
“We are supplying the city with 505,000 cubic metres of water a day against a demand of 760,000 cubic metres a day and we will continue producing the same volume of water until the onset of the April long rains,” he said.

But by midsummer, our son was diagnosed with an outer ear infection.
The pediatrician asked if he had been swimming in Delaware’s bays.
After that, I’ve seen warnings against swimming in the Inland Bays with an open wound — and we’ve started to question our activities on the water.
Worse, I’ve learned there are many communities in Sussex County that don’t have access to clean drinking water.
There are multiple causes for these polluted waters — loss of wetlands, aging sewage treatment plants, and malfunctioning septic systems, to name a few.
And there are solutions for cleaning up our contaminated water resources.
I urge Sussex Countians to support funding efforts and for Sussex County lawmakers to support bills like House Bill 270, which would raise such funds.
Many of the benefits would be seen right here at home.
Every Sussex Countian has a right to clean water — especially safe drinking water.
Aimee Isaac lives in Rehoboth Beach.

Pupils will start the year bringing their own bottled drinking water to at least one high school that is taking drastic steps to mitigate the effects of a looming water crisis in Cape Town.
When pupils return to school‚ they will have limited access to drinking water and some toilet facilities will be closed.
“As the water crisis heightens in the Western Cape in general and Cape Town in particular‚ Bergvliet High School is obliged to take measures to reduce our water consumption‚” said the notice from principal Stephen Price.
– Downstairs toilets being open before school‚ at breaks and after school – otherwise locked with keys available should they need to be used during lessons.
– One hand basin tap operational per bathroom‚ with the others disconnected.
Hand sanitiser will be provided.
– Pupils will be required to bring‚ according to a roster system‚ 5l of bottled water per month to be used daily in class.
The school told parents that it had been approached by the city’s disaster management team with a view to it being used as a water collection point for residents‚ should “Day Zero” arrive when the dams are empty.
The department is monitoring water consumption and will intervene where necessary where water consumption is excessive.
“The WCED has also issued spreadsheets to schools for monitoring water consumption in the mornings‚ afternoons and over weekends.

Islamic Relief (IR) event and volunteer coordinator Ashraf Kenny and 21 other daring individuals from across three continents have taken on a challenge to cycle more than 200km through Andalusia, Spain.
The international organisation aims to raise awareness and much-needed funds for a project that will provide safe drinking water to four villages in Mali, West Africa.
Kenny’s personal aim is to raise R50 000 towards the project that will provide safe drinking water to 4800 people living in these villages.
“The cycle route promises to be a tough one, but I am fired up to take on the challenge of completing the 200km with your prayers, encouragement and support.
We are to truly provide them with water for life,” he says He says that by donating towards the project, locals will be providing much more than a simple convenience to these communities – they will be contributing towards building their future, and restoring their dignity, with every precious drop.
“I am a runner and not a cyclist.
I have never cycled this long before.
To be honest, the only cycling training I get is at gym.
This is a new challenge for me and nothing like I have embarked on before.
The struggle we will go through with cycling over the four days in Spain is nothing compared to what these people go through daily to get water.” Kenny says the project funds will cover a solar-powered water-harvesting system, which harnesses the energy of the sun to provide the villages with easy access to clean water – an example of how IR’s carefully tailored approach to humanitarian development provides sustainable solutions and improves quality of life.

(From left) Salome Turagaicei, 10, of Nawi Village; Maika Saladromo, 12, of Buca Village; Sereana Yalayala, 47, of Naruwai Village and Viliame Matai, 7, of Loa Village tasting water from a standpipe in Tukavesi village.
Photo: WAF Four hundred villagers of Tukavesi, Natewa in Cakaudrove, Vanua Levu, now have access to piped drinking water after the completion of their Rural Water Project.
The previous system, which was constructed in 2008, experienced major leakages in the piping network and a complete replacement of the reticulation in the village, as well as requested Government stations.
The $176,046 project, which was outsourced by the Water Authority of Fiji (WAF) to Taviraki Building and Civil Works Limited, saw the laying of 800 lengths (4.5km) of 50mm and 150 lengths (1km) of 15mm of PVC pipes, and 8 coils of 20mm polythene pipes along trenched paths.
WAF Chief Operating Officer, Mr Samanmal Ekanayake, reiterated that the outsourcing model the Authority is implementing empowers the community by paying the water committee for the village support required during the water project.
“This empowers the Water Committee to be responsible for ongoing maintenance and repairs, thus ensuring the longevity and sustainability of their village water supply system.
This also builds the local capacity of contractors to undertake water supply construction work.
For this project, the village water committee will receive $6,629 as payment for the village assistance provided,” said Mr Ekanayake.
“For the last three years, a youth and I had to close and open the valve in order to have water in the village and prevent the school (Kama District School) from closing and keep our children in school,” he said.
Edited by Percy Kean