Veolia Water Southeast

Veolia Water Southeast Limited
Subsidiary
Industry Water supply
Founded June 1848
Headquarters Folkestone, Kent
Key people
  • Paul Sabin DL (Chairman)
  • Nevil Muncaster (Managing Director)
  • Gavin McHale (Head of Operations)
  • Chris Taylor (Head of Capital Investment & Asset Management)
  • Tim Charlesworth (Head of Finance & Support Services)
  • Pauline Wilson (Head of Customer Relationships)
Revenue Increase £17.3m (2008)[1]
Number of employees
 93 (2008)[2]
Parent Veolia Environnement (through Veolia Water)
Website southeast.veoliawater.co.uk

Veolia Water Southeast (formerly Folkestone & Dover Water Services) was a privately owned company supplying water in south east Kent, England. The company's chairman was Paul Sabin.[3]

Veolia Water Southeast was a water only company providing around 43 million litres of water a day to approximately 158,000 customers throughout Folkestone and Dover together with surrounding rural areas including Romney Marsh and Dungeness.[4]

The area served was entirely reliant on water stored underground in chalk or gravel aquifers, as there was no surface water from rivers or major reservoirs to draw on.[5]

The company head office was located close to the original reservoir site used by the company over 150 years ago.[6]

The history of the Company can be traced back to Folkestone’s first piped water supply. Aside from the part of Kent which is closest to London, Folkestone was the first town in the county to have a public water supply operated under the powers of the Waterway Clauses Act 1847 – the Act which opened the way to create water undertakings throughout the land.[7]

Between 2009 and 2011, Veolia Water embarked on a programme of installing water meters, beginning with Folkestone and moving to other areas.[8]

The company was renamed Veolia Water Southeast in July 2009 following plans by Veolia Water UK to use the brand across its businesses.[9] Veolia Water UK is part of the Veolia Environnement group of companies.[10] In 2012, following the sale of Veolia Water's UK water supply business, it was merged with Veolia Water Central and Veolia Water East to form Affinity Water on 1 October 2012.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Revenue (2008)
  2. ↑ Employee number (2008)
  3. ↑ Veolia waters management team
  4. ↑ About Veolia water south east
  5. ↑ Water storage (second paragraph down)
  6. ↑ Original reservoir site from over 150 years ago(last paragraph)
  7. ↑ Folkestone, one of Kents first public water supplies
  8. ↑ Installing water meters in Folkestone
  9. ↑ Folkestone & Dover Water name change to Veolia Water Southeast
  10. ↑ Veolia waters parent company
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