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Tankers withdraw from Yorks relief

11th January 1996
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• More than 400 tankers have been withdrawn from the lucrative Yorkshire Water relief operation after heavy snow and rain over the holiday period boosted reservoir stocks by up to 4%.

Following the suspension of tankering to Leeds and Calderdale and the reduction of deliveries to Kirklees, there are now only 150 tankers working on the Exel Logistics-managed operation.

Until Christmas 600 tankers were working round the clock, making up to 60 deliveries an hour to the worst hit areas. Drivers have been earning up to £600 a day. The emergency operation has already cost Yorkshire Water over 10m, with tankers covering 100 million kilometres over the past two months to make 195,000 deliveries.

Even though reservoir stocks in Leeds and Calderdale are now at 22%, Yorkshire Water says that any drop in levels could lead to tankering operations beginning again.

Stocks in reservoirs serving Kirklees have now improved to 18% and tankering has switched from the Outlaue discharge point at Scammondon to a new point on the hard shoulder of the M62.

Zi See feature on page 32.

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