Ring main work continues
Rectory Hill will close from the 4th March whilst Guernsey Water continues work to install a new ring main for the Northern Parishes.
A ring main acts like a motorway of the water network, maintaining water supply and pressure to a growing island. Other smaller mains feed from it.
Carl Falla, Capital Delivery Manager, said: "This essential island infrastructure will secure sufficient and resilient water supplies for the Northern Parishes for decades to come.
With increased growth and development across the island, failing to carry out this work now could result in pressure drops, and even a loss of supply to thousands in future."
The project, one of the largest new water infrastructure investments currently being undertaken by the utility, estimated to take between five and seven years to complete and cost approximately £11 million.
"As well as safeguarding water supplies into the future, starting this work now also represents cost and disruption savings when compared to fixing issues as they arise. We are working hard to maintain our firm financial foundations, and planning decades ahead is just one of the ways we are doing that."
This phase of the works will involve 400m of new pipework being installed under the public highway, following on from the first complex section of the installation which was completed in December 2024, on time and on budget.
Rectory Hill (Rue du Presbytere) will shut for 12 weeks from the 4th March 2025.