Ross-on-Wye

At the Homs Road site more parts of the tunnelling equipment are arriving and the machine underground is being prepared with its various umbilical cables being arranged and connected up.

The work on the falling shaft at Fiveways/Kings Acre has started. The material that has been dug out, by the excavator that can be seen in the background, is being put into the clamp ready to be moved out to the bund.

This spoil storage clamp has been built to temporarily store the material that is dug out of the falling shaft as it is dug out. The spoil will then be moved out of the clamp, via lorry, to the bund where it will be stored for use later our used to build the bund itself.

Here the piles and supporting framework, to stop the piles collapsing in when the material between them is removed, can be seen. This will allow the culvert between Fiveways and Broadmeadows to be more rapidly put in place.

Some pipe sections have been delivered to the bund area so that a temporary throttle can be created. They are also to used to create bridges over watercourses that run across the bund area to allow machinery and equipment to be more easily moved around the area.