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Photos | Tideway from the air as final shaft excavated

King Edward Memorial Park Foreshore – The shaft at this site in Wapping is the deepest and last to be completed on Tideway. This site will intercept an overflow point in the river wall and is the easternmost riverside site on the project. (All images courtesy of Tideway)

Tideway has completed the final shaft dug as part of the London super sewer project, meaning that all 21 of the scheme’s shafts have now been fully excavated.

The final shaft, the deepest of the project, was dug at King Edward Memorial Park in Wapping. A concrete base slab will new be poured at the shaft within the next month.

A series of contractors are working on the £4.1bn Thames Tideway construction, which is being funded by Thames Water and its customers. BAM Nuttall, Morgan Sindall are building the west section, Ferrovial Agroman UK and Laing O’Rourke are responsible for the central section, and Costain, Vinci and Bachy Soletanche are building the east section. Meanwhile Amey is providing process control, communication equipment and software systems for operation and maintenance.

Blackfriars Bridge Foreshore – The new ‘Bazalgette Embankment’ will be the largest public space created as part of the Tideway project. Here, the team is working to link the existing sewer network to the super sewer.

To mark the digging of the final shaft, Tideway has release new aerial imagery, showing the new land being built in the River Thames, created to allow Tideway to expand upon the existing sewer network.

Chambers Wharf – Just down river from Tower Bridge, this ‘launch’ site saw tunnel boring machine (TBM) Selina begin the final 5.5km of the super sewer late last year. It also received TBM Ursula, finishing the central section and will later receive TBM Anni, creating a connection tunnel from Greenwich.

Construction engineer Harriet Cheaney said: “These helicopter images not only give us amazing views of our beautiful city, but showcase the scale of the work Tideway is doing to clean up the River Thames.

“We’ve now built around 20km of the 25km super sewer and are around 65 per cent complete – but these amazing photos really bring the scale of our task to life.

Victoria Embankment – Here, the team is working to link an existing spill point in the river wall to the new super sewer.

“With this final shaft now complete, teams across Tideway have an eye on the finish line and are working around the clock to complete this job and clean up the River Thames.”