Problems at shepton mallet cider mill

pipe liningsoon after arriving at the cider mill we were a first a bit taken back by the amount of water we was contending with. it appeared as a leak into one of the waste holding pits but after pumping under pressure 80 kg of expanding foam grout beyond the chamber wall, the water made its way in to the adjacent old clay  pipe work through the open and displaced joint's. newforms plan of actionthen was to install a patch liner over the worst of these leaks using a glass fibre matting and a calibration bladder with a working pressure of around 2 bar, once this was complete we then went on to install a 12 metre super flexi liner impregnated with a silicate resin, the choice was use silicate as it does not shrinklike the polyester resins this in turn would create a better seal not letting any water to run down the back of the liner. Once this was installed we thought we had solved the problem,until the next morning we arrived to check everything was ok only to find water pouring out of the ground in an area there was no visual sign of water before after a chat among our selves we come to the conclusionthis had to be a water leak of some sort so we called in Bristol water they had a look around and confirmed it was a water leak but could not find where the water was coming from after looking around and using the cat and generator on any water pipe we could find, we found the pipe that was leaking and disconnected it. the idea is to now run a new 25mm plastic water supply above ground to reduce on the cost of excavation.

problem solved

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