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 - We take over Dudley Waterworks. Netherton and Oldbury receive water supplies.
- 1864 - We take over Burton Waterworks.
- 1875 - Cannock area supplied.
An Act of Parliament raises capital to build Huntington and Moors Gorse Pumping Stations, Scout House and Rowley Reservoirs.
- 1893 - An average of 7 million gallons is supplied daily. The first reservoir at Sedgley is built.
- 1896 - A total of 92,007 houses are supplied, providing 565,000 people with water.
The average daily supply is 8.78 million gallons.
- 1903 - The Company is 50 years old. Pipe Hill pumping station is built.
- 1919 - A total of 146,791 houses are now supplied, providing 733,955 people with water.
- 1927 - Sandfields pumping station is modernised.
- 1929 - We take over Kinver Waterworks.
- 1930 - A total of 179,691 houses are supplied, providing 898,000 people with water.
We now have over 1115 miles of mains pipeworks in use.
- 1940 - The Ministry of Health instructs that all water supplies must be chlorinated.
- 1942 - 1,250,000 people are supplied with water. The average daily supply is 31 million gallons.
- 1953 - Blithfield Reservoir, near Rugeley, is opened by HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
- 1962 - we take over Tamworth Water Works
- 1966 - Further modernisation of Sandfields pumping station takes place.
- 1975 - A widespread drought almost causes Blithfield Reservoir to dry up.
- 1984 - We move to our present offices.
- 1991 - We become South Staffordshire Water Plc.
- 1996 - Blithfield Education Centre is opened by Bill Oddie.
- 1997 - Sandfields pumping station closes.
- 2000 - South Staffordshire Water have the second lowest domestic bill in the country.
- 2003 - South Staffordshire Water celebrate their 150th year!
- 2004 - The demerger of South Staffordshire Group Plc takes place, creating South Staffordshire Plc.
- 2006 - Blithfield Education Centre celebrates its 10th birthday!
