Lewis Huston is working on a £61m improve mission at Bewl Water Treatment Works.
“We have a myriad of issues as a treatment works,” he says.
“It’s a complicated process, so doing good maintenance is something that just keeps everything running.”
In the most important management room of the website a log ebook lists the day by day faults at the website, together with failing valves and issues with energy.
“I wouldn’t say something goes wrong every day,” says Huston.
Huston says a part of the improve phrases is changing valves on equipment and placing in an “uninterruptible power supply”.
He has additionally helped work on the set up of two new pumps, which now pump consuming water to Cottage Hill reservoir in East Sussex, as a part of attempting to construct resilience.
In the summer time of 2023, that handled water reservoir ran critically low after a chronic heatwave and hundreds of individuals in the Wadhurst, Rotherfield and Mayfield space misplaced provide.
“It’s never nice waking up in the morning and seeing the company on the news,” he admits.
But he provides: “I quite like solving problems and issues and I want to be involved.”
