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South Staffs Water

South Staffs Water supplies a population of nearly 1.29 million, over an area of almost 1,500 square kilometres across large parts of the Black Country.

Cities served include Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley, together with areas such as Tamworth, Uttoxeter, Burton, Lichfield, Sutton Coldfield and Cannock. The company supplies 330 million litres of water every day via a 6,000km network of pipes to approximately 500,000 homes and 36,000 business customers.

In 2013 South Staffs Water acquired Cambridge Water Company.

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Seedy Mill WTW (2023)

Seedy Mill WTW treats surface water from the Blithfield Reservoir. The existing supply to the works is gravity-fed up to a maximum of 85 MLD. Additional yield could be provided by utilising three in-line booster pumps located at Nethertown. In addition, there are two individual borehole contributions at Seedy Mill and Trent Valley, which can […]

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Hampton Loade WTW (2023)

Hampton Loade WTW treats raw water from Chelmarsh Reservoir, located approximately two miles north-west of the site. The reservoir is supplied by the river intake pumps located within the intake building immediately adjacent to the River Severn. The maximum flow that can gravitate to the works from the reservoir is 130-135 megalitres/day (MLD). To increase […]

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Hampton Loade Eel Screens (2022)

Operated by South Staffs Water (SSW), Hampton Loade Water Treatment Works is located five miles from Bridgnorth, Shropshire and supplies around 700,000 customers. Constructed in the 1960s, the site comprises the treatment works, an intake on the River Severn and a regulating reservoir at Chelmarsh which stores the abstracted river water. The river intake is […]

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South Staffs Water Pump Efficiency Programme (2022)

Minimising energy consumption and CO2 emissions are at heart of all modern water companies and the 2030 net zero carbon emission target can only be achieved if real and direct effort is dedicated to this. The pump efficiency programme described within this article is a major part of the energy efficiency strategy undertaken by South […]

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Maple Brook Pumping Station (2013)

Refurbishment of a 100 year old pumping station to ensure reliability of supply for the next 25 years

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Seedy Mill WTW (2003)

Recovery of filter backwash water using novel UF technology

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Outwoods Reservoir (2017)

The original Outwoods Reservoir (No.1) was constructed in 1882 in Burton on Trent. An additional Reservoir (No.2) was added in 1962 in response to increased demand on supply. In 2017, South Staffs Water awarded Stonbury the contract to replace Reservoir No.1 which has proven increasingly expensive to update and maintain and was taken out of […]