South Staffordshire Water
South Staffordshire Water PLC known as South Staffs Water, is a privately owned water company supplying water to parts of Staffordshire and the West Midlands, England.
In total, they serve a population of 1.29 million and supply 330 million litres of water every day across a network of pipes that total 6,000 km in length to approximately 500,000 homes and 36,000 business customers in an area covering 1,500 km². For Ofwat’s measure of overall service to customers (The OPA), they have been ranked in the top 5 (out of 22 water companies) in every year since 1999. [2]
South Staffordshire Water Plc is part of South Staffordshire Plc, and is wholly owned by Alinda Infrastructure Fund. [3]
Supply Area
The area supplied is to the north and west of Birmingham and includes [4]
Sewage
South Staffordshire Water is a water supply company and does not provide sewage services. Severn Trent Water[5] provide sewage services to South Staffordshire Water supply customers.
Water Sources
South Staffordshire water has 2 reservoirs which produce 60% of the water along with 69 boreholes which produce the other 40% of the water.[6]
Reservoirs
History
Timeline
- 1853 South Staffordshire Waterworks Company is formed
- 1858 Opening of the works in Walsall. Wednesbury is the first area supplied
- 1860 Tipton and West Bromwich receive water supplies
- 1862 SSWC take over Dudley Waterworks. Netherton and Oldbury receive water supplies
- 1864 SSWC take over Burton Waterworks
- 1875 Cannock area supplied
- 1929 SSWC take over Kinver Waterworks.
- 1953 Blithfield Reservoir, near Rugeley, is opened by Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother
- 1962 SSWC take over Tamworth Water Works
- 1991 South Staffordshire Waterworks Company became a public limited company in 1991 and was listed on the London Stock Exchange as South Staffordshire Water.
- 1992 South Staffordshire Water Holdings (eventually South Staffordshire Group Plc) was created to grow non-regulated businesses.
- 1996 Blithfield Education Centre is opened by Bill Oddie
- 2004 South Staffordshire Group Plc (which became Homeserve Plc) de-merged South Staffordshire Plc, which included South Staffordshire Water, Echo, Rapid, Underground Pipeline Services and Aqua Direct, as a separate listed company on the London Stock Exchange.
- 2004 Acquired by Arcapita Bank, a Bahrain company, at a price of £11.20 per share (£237m including debt) and delisted from the Stock Exchange.
- 2007 Acquired by Alinda Infrastructure Fund, a European and American investor in infrastructure assets. [7]
References
- ^ South Staffordshire Water PLC. "Executive team". http://www.south-staffs-water.co.uk/about_us/management.asp. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ^ South Staffordshire Water PLC. "Company Details". http://www.south-staffs-water.co.uk/about_us/about_us.asp. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
- ^ South Staffordshire Water PLC. "Ownership". http://www.south-staffordshire.com/about_us.asp. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
- ^ South Staffordshire Water PLC. "Area of Supply". http://www.south-staffs-water.co.uk/about_us/supplyarea.asp. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
- ^ uSwitch, South Staffordshire Water.
- ^ How your water is treated, South Staffordshire Water
- ^ South Staffordshire Water PLC. "Alinda". http://www.alinda.com/active_investments. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
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