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Work starts from the water heating system in Durham Durham County

Work starts from the water heating system in Durham Durham County

The works are in the process of creating a water heating system that will provide hundreds of houses.

The water in the disagreeing mines will eventually be used for heating houses In a new community near Seaham, in Durham County.

Half 1,500 houses on Seaham Garden Village Development, which will be built in the next 10 years, will be heated through an ultra-casual network of carbon.

Councilor Mark Wilkes, a member of the Durham County Council Cabinet for neighborhoods and climate change, said the project will have “significant benefits for the environment”.

The water is extracted from the former coal works to protect the underground water aquifer that offers drinking water to the households.

This water is extracted and treated to remove heavy metals before being evacuated at sea.

The heat in the water is currently dissipated in the atmosphere, but within the new project, it will be supplied in the heat network.

The Durham County Council, MRA and Karbon Homes work together on the scheme for heating 750 accessible houses in Seaham Garden Village, with vital designation, construction and operation of the heat network.

The mine water project received 4.3 million pounds from the Government Heat Network Investment Project, including 3.23 million pounds to construction.

Wilkes said that mine water will be “there in the long term for decades.”

“If you think of oil and gas, these are finite resources that come from abroad,” he said.

“This is right here in Durham County. It is the inheritance of all those people who have worked in me.”