Water Services you can trust from Wincanton

Wincanton has considerable experience in the water industry, supplying water services for over 20 years to a wide variety of customers.

We have the capability to provide unique solutions and expertise to provide a number of water services including:

• Event Water Supply
• Emergency and Alternative Water Supply
• Industrial Business Continuity Planning for Water Provision
• General Water Storage and Transport Services

We are specialists at providing on-time, controlled, secure water deliveries and on-site water services at events. We pride ourselves on providing a service and product you can trust.

We have supplied water to events for 20 years; our client base is testament to this including

Glastonbury
V-Festival
Big Chill
Leeds Festival
Great Dorset Steam Fair.

We can service all kinds of events from large scale festivals with camping, to local rallies and fairs. We offer a UK Wide solution drawing on the scale and size of Wincanton’s position as a leading UK Logistics Provider.

For Glastonbury 2008 we delivered over 4 million litres of potable water for catering, drinking and hygiene facilities, as well as on-site management support and water transfers. For more details a case study is available as a download from this site.

Our market leading position enables us to provide flexible solutions for water deliveries offering a tailor made solution for each customer by utilising both specialist equipment and a skilled and experienced management team.

On-site support can be provided including water transfers, driver and risk assessments, health and safety and incident management. All our equipment is sanitised and certificated and includes:

• Static tanks or bowsers with 1000 to 28,000 litre capacities
• Rigid and Articulated tanker deliveries
• Rigid and Articulated tanker transhipment
• Palletised bottled water

Our supporting services also include On-site supervision & Plumbing Services.

Emergency & Alternative Water Supply - Response you can Rely On

Wincanton has considerable experience in the water industry, working with water companies in the provision of alternative and emergency water supply.

Our market leading position enables us to provide flexible solutions for water deliveries offering

• Response to Emergency and Planned Interruptions
• Rigid and Artic Tankers
• Flatbed Trailers with HIAB
• Curtain Siders (with or without Fork Lift Truck)
• Rigids capable of Kerbside distribution and home deliveries
• Static tank storage, cleaning and repair
• Bottled Water Storage and Distribution
• Plumbing Services

Current Customers include

Veolia Water
Scottish Water
Northumbrian Water
Yorkshire Water
United Utilities
Wessex Water

Regardless of the situation we are able to provide sufficient resource to meet the need. Drawing on our size and scale as a leading UK Logistics Provider we have a large range of equipment, driver resource and management expertise at the disposal of the Emergency Water team..

Our unique solution uses a combination of fleet to give us the ability to deploy, fill and refill static tanks or bowsers to all locations including kerbside, to source and distribute bottled water, to tanker and tranship water and provide on-site incident services. This equipment is fully maintained and on standby 24 hours per day 365 days per year.

Our capability was demonstrated during the 2007 Gloucester Flood where we provided approximately 30 million litres of water. For more details a case study is available as a download from this site.

This is all supported by a dedicated control centre, where all movements are tracked and controlled to ensure a full audit trail throughout the emergency period.

We also offer an Emergency Water Service tailored to Industry. This supports and recognises the importance of business continuity planning in order to minimise the financial and operational risk of business interruption.

From supporting crucial business processes such as keeping a production line running to ensuring a server room/data centre is kept at the correct temperature we can be relied on to ensure continuity of business. Industry Customers we have worked with in this area include:

Orange
Dairy Crest
Glaxo Smith Kline

This service includes a risk assessment of the site, design of the optimum alternative water supply solution, provision of plumbing services if required and a guaranteed response time in the event of a disruption.

Using both our supply chain expertise and our experience in the water industry we can provide a number of other logistics services Ranging from total supply chain management, warehousing and storage to one off specific water distribution needs.