Formerly known as West Country South Sources and Transfers, the Cheddar two reservoir and transfer scheme considers the potential to develop a new reservoir in Bristol Water’s area and transfer the water to Wessex Water’s area.
Working with other water companies
Water companies are required to work together to produce regional water resource plans and where possible assess the potential to move surplus supplies of water to areas of deficit.
We are proud to be part of the West Country Water Resources group, along with Bristol Water, South West Water, the Environment Agency and Natural England.
We are working together to produce our first Regional Water Resources Plan. We consulted on a draft emerging plan in February 2022. The next version will be available for consultation in early 2023.
Our current regional water scheme
In addition to producing a regional plan, regulators have asked us to investigate the feasibility of regional schemes over the next five-year period.
There are three schemes in our region, which are following a gated process overseen by RAPID. These three schemes are listed below.
Previous investigations
The South Sources and Transfers investigation and Southern Transfer investigation considered transfers from South West Water’s Roadford reservoir and water recycling to support Southern Water. The Gate 1 Mendip Quarries SRO report has been superseded with the latest Gate 2 document above.
Summary feasibility reports
Read our summary feasibility reports on these investigations.
West Country South Sources and Transfers SRO Gate 1 Report – July 2021
west-country-south-sources-and-transfers-sro-gate-1-report-jul-2021.pdf - (1.89mb)West Country South South Southern Water Transfer SRO Gate 1 Report - July 2021
west-country-south-southern-water-transfer-sro-gate-1-report-jul-2021.pdf - (1.69mb)Read the Mendip Quarries SRO Gate 1 Report - December 2021
mendip-quarries-sro-gate-1-report-dec-2021.pdf - (1.28mb)Queries and responses
Read our responses to queries from RAPID on these schemes, which include specific comments and answers, in addition to the provision of our Environmental Assessments.
Mendip Quarries SRO RAPID queries and responses
mendip-quarries-sro-rapid-queries-and-responses-feb-2022.pdf - (496kb)West Country South SROs Environmental Assessments combined
west-country-south-sros-environmental-assessments-combined.pdf - (9.08mb)West Country South SROs RAPID Gate 1 queries and solution owner responses
west-country-south-sros-rapid-gate-1-queries-and-solution-owner-responses.pdf - (677kb)