United Utilities

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United Utilities

• Lakes for Living Lakes for Life 2009

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Overview

• Overview of United Utilities
• UU and the Lake District
• Our approach
• Our environmental investments
• Our approach to the natural environment
• Community and social engagement
• Bringing it all together - SCAMP

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United Utilities an overview

• We are the UKs largest listed water and
  wastewater company
• We operate and sometimes own water, wastewater,
  gas and electricity networks
• We serve some 20 million customers worldwide
• Turnover of 2,363.0 million (2007-2008)
• Employing over 9,000 people
• 10 billion invested in the UK between 1989-2005
• Between 2005-2010, 3.5 billion will be invested
  by United Utilities in our water, wastewater and
  electricity networks in the north west
• Between 2010-2015, we estimate we will contribute
  some 9 billion to the North West economy,
  providing employment for some 15,000 people

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United Utilities - in the North West
192 reservoirs 453 service reservoirs water
towers 40,000km of water mains 1,200km of
aqueduct 137 water treatment works 40,000km of
sewers 599 wastewater treatment works 58,000km of
cables 24,000 gigawatts transmitted p.a 350
substations 58,000 hectares of land
Water
Electricity
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UU in the Lake District

• The Lake District is strategically important to
  UU
• Major source of drinking water for Manchester
• The Lake District is an international tourist
  attraction
• We carry out our activities responsibly
• The Lake District is an environmental asset
• We interact with that environment daily and do so
  responsibly
• Investing some 36m on water and around 70m on
  wastewater projects in Cumbria over the period
  2010 2015
• We have a long term commitment to a successful
  future for the Lake District

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The Importance of the Lake District

• 40 of the water supplied in the north west is
  sourced from the Lake District

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Our intent and approach

• At United Utilities our aim is to provide best
  value utility services to our
• customers in a way that is sustainable,
  environmentally responsible and
• reflects our wider social impact.
• Philip Green CEO, Adam Smith Institute March 2007
• Its the right thing to do the moral case
• It makes business sense the business case
• It helps to attract and retain talent the
  business case

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Examples of Environmental Investment 2005 2010

• 1.4m at Heltondale, Haweswater, for new fish
  screens and fish pass
• At Quarry Hill, we have installed new lake level
  control at Overwater, a SSSI to control
  abstraction more readily
• 2m at Meadley IR assessment to reclassify
  reservoir and breech the embankment to create
  wild life habitat. Some water to be retained
  suitable for fishing.
• Lake Windermere installed phosphate removal
  plant at Langdale WwTW (0.7m) and spent 1.3m to
  enhance facilities at Windermere and Ambleside
  WwTW, to reduce nutrient input to Lake  

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Planned Environmental Investment 2010 2015

• 5.1m for new hydraulic fish pass at Ennerdale
  together with the rerouting of Ben Ghyll
• Increase in Ehen flow primarily to support Pearl
  Mussel populations downstream of Ennerdale
• 0.8m on structural changes to provide a new
  compensation flow at Dubbs and increased
  compensation flow at Borrans
• 3m on first time phosphate removal installation
  at Consiton WwTW to reduce nutrient input to
  Consiton Water
• 13m on enhanced facilities to be installed at
  Keswick WwTW, along with reducing the frequency
  of intermittent discharges at 2 sites in the
  Bassenthwaite Lake catchment.

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Natural resource protection and environmental
enhancement

• Commitments to
• Pollution
• Environmental water quality
• Biodiversity
• Conservation access and recreation
• Landscape management
• Examples
• SCaMP
• Endangered species (hen harriers, red squirrels)

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Wild Ennerdale

• Partnership vision To allow the evolution of
  Ennerdale as a wild valley for the benefit of
  people relying more on natural processes to shape
  its landscape and ecology

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Engaging with customer and communities

• Commitments to
• Support and inform communities
• Invest in targeted partnerships for mutual
  benefit
• Public health and water quality
• Education and talent attraction

• Examples
• Education Classroom (Brockholes)
• Partnership with RSPB
• Partnership with Groundwork
• Tap into Water
• UU Trust Fund
• Public information at visitor sites

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Balancing social, environmental and economic
concerns the challenge of the business plan
Climate Change
Striking a cost beneficial balance
Quality Improvements
Bills
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Bringing environment, economy and community
together - Sustainable Catchment Management
(SCaMP)
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Key Messages

• SCaMP Outputs in PR04 very successful
• Good response from tenant farmers
• Sustainable value for money approach
• OFWAT support the approach
• BAP improvements occurring
• Plan to apply the approach to the rest of our
  catchment land (30,000)
• Looking to extend the approach to non-owned land
  by working in partnership with key stakeholders

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SCaMP 1 Project Statistics

• Area of Land 20,000 ha
• Natura 2000 sites 13,500 ha
• Number of farms 20
• Costs
• UU funds 9m
• Public support 3.5m
• Enabling expenditure e.g. farm buildings 2m
• Moorland restoration expenditure 10.5m

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SCaMP1 Benefits

• SSSI status changed for the better
• Biodiversity Improvements
• More sustainable raw water quality
• Greater confidence in availability and
  reliability of supplies
• Good relationship built with regulators (NE,
  EA),NGOs (NT, RSPB) and tenants
• Supporting govt legislation by leading in
  catchment management, WFD, Habitats Directive,
  Soils directive, NERC Act, CROW Act etc

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SCaMP2 Future PR09

• PR09 Regulatory settlement for 2010 2015
• United Utilities Strategic Direction Statement
  (SDS) outward to 2035
• We want to extend SCaMP-type approaches to
  other catchment land we own and promote its use
  on other catchments which we might not own but on
  which we nevertheless rely for water supplies.

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SCaMP Future PR09

• Extend SCaMP to areas not covered in AMP4
• Work with regulators and other stakeholders in
  developing a SCaMP 2 programme
• Continue the monitoring
• Continue BAP improvements
• Seek funding through the price review process.
  Looking for support from Stakeholders and
  customers

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SCaMP2 Future PR09

• Area of Land 30,000 ha
• Natura 2000 sites 4000 ha
• Number of farms 40
• Costs
• UU funds 11m
• Public support 2m
• Enabling expenditure e.g. farm buildings 1.5m
• Environmental restoration expenditure 11.5m

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Objectives of SCaMP
To develop an integrated approach to catchment
management incorporating sustainable upland
farming which delivers a range of water quality,
environmental and public goods

• Improving raw water quality and reducing risk
• Securing and improving the carbon flux management
  of our land
• Implementing biodiversity plans for priority
  habitats and species
• Viable living for our tenant farmers
• Entering into long term agreements with tenant
  farmers to define farming plans compatible with
  the above objectives

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SCaMP locations
SCaMP has two phases SCaMP 1 Bowland and our
Southern Estate around Longdendale, Goyt and Peak
District (in green). SCaMP 2 the Northern
Estate area, Thirlmere and Haweswater, and our
Central Estate area around Bolton, Rivington and
East Lancashire (in brown).
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The positive impact of SCaMP
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Concluding Remarks
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Thank you