19 July 2018
During the public meeting at the Half Tree Hollow Community Centre on Wednesday, 4 July 2018, to discuss the proposed water tariffs, in response to one of the questions Elected Members gave an undertaking to provide details to the public in both papers, the amount of funding Connect Saint Helena Ltd (Connect) has received since divested, through the Capital Programme and what the various funding streams were for.
The total budget provided to Connect from the Capital Programme from 2013-18 was £5,474,738.20. A breakdown of the works and associated costs is given below:
2013-14
Expenditure of £1,572,536.65 was incurred in 2013-14 and was for the following works listed below. Data to determine the actual amounts incurred to each work stream is not readily available:
- Consultancy with Fairhurst to review the Island’s water works
- Water work refurbishments which included areas such as:
- Bottom Woods
- Model Cottage
2014-15
Expenditure of £1,746,569.30 was incurred in 2014-15 and was for the following works listed below. Data to determine the actual amounts incurred to each work stream is not readily available:
- Land Surveys for water systems
- Levelwood to Sandy Bay bulk water supply
- Rose Hill to Woody Ridge bulk water supply
- Frenches Gut to Head O’wain water supply pipeline
- High Knoll treated water supply
- Upgrade of Red Hill raw water systems
2015-16
Expenditure of £731,061 was incurred in 2015-16 for the below works:
| Upgrading of Red Hill raw water abstraction systems | 30,000.00 |
| Upgrading of Hutts Gate raw water abstraction systems | 15,000.00 |
| Construction of Chubbs Spring Generator Room | 12,775.00 |
| Construction of Levelwood Generator Room | 8,358.84 |
| Installation of Clarifiers | 15,000.00 |
| Harpers 2 Construction of silt traps and access | 57,939.05 |
| Consultancies: New/Enlarged reservoirs (Harpers 3, Hutts Gate and Levelwood) | 80,000.00 |
| Enlargement of Harpers 3 reservoir | 268,537.13 |
| New untreated water supply system for Ropery Field agricultural development | 10,000.00 |
| Fishers Valley to Longwood raw water pumping system | 233,451.85 |
2016-17
Expenditure of £1,031,001.88 was incurred in 2016-17 for the below works:
| Harpers 3 | 44,390.15 |
| Gents Bath Abstraction System and Upgrade access | 40,245.00 |
| Harpers 1 Enlargement | 41,011.00 |
| Hutts Gate 2 reservoir | 313,872.56 |
| Transfer System 1: Chubbs Spring – Scotts Mill | 97,707.37 |
| Transfer System 2 – Airport Fire Tank – Fishers Valley | 103,219.38 |
| Transfer System 3: Sharks Valley to Hutts Gate | 100,862.42 |
| Feasibility Study: Deep Aquifer Drilling | 41,194.00 |
| Deep Aquifer Drilling exploration | 248,500.00 |
2017-18
Expenditure of £393,568.50 was incurred in 2017-18 for the below works:
| Transfer System 1: Chubbs Spring – Scotts Mill | 49,950.00 |
| Transfer System 2 – Airport Fire Tank – Fishers Valley | 28,864.50 |
| Transfer System 3: Sharks Valley to Hutts Gate | 118,802.00 |
| Feasibility Study: Deep Aquifer Drilling | 14,806.00 |
| Deep Aquifer Drilling exploration | 181,146.00 |
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19 July 2018