Better than Corrie... ! - (September 24)

Wednesday 24 7:30pm - Revival Church, High Street, New Mills

The Country's first Community Owned and Community Funded Hydro Electric Scheme
Revival Church, High Street, 7.30 - 9pm

Come and hear about the pioneering scheme in New Mills Torrs: a presentation
and informal discussion.

FREE but small charge for refreshments.

As part of the New Mills Festival the Directors of Torrs Hydro New Mills will be giving an informal presentation this evening at the Revival Church - everyone is welcome, refreshments will be served with proceeds being donated to charity.

Road works - (24 September)

Please take care today if walking from Torrs Hydro site across the bridge and up the hill towards the Rock Tavern pub on Wirksmoor Road as resurfacing work will be taking place

Torrs Hydro are funding this remedial work on this stretch of road prior to this weekends New Mills Lantern procession.

Maintenance - (23 September)

A couple of days longer than we had expected but we are now up and running again and sending power to the Co-op store in New Mills.

Ritz Atro (the screw manufacturers) kindly sent us out one of their engineers to work alongside Dave Mann and his team to re-align the bearing flange and whilst here he gave everything the once over and we have a clean bill of health.

Clear water - (20/09)

What a great turn out this morning in the brilliant New Mills sunshine - the team of Ruth, Maggie, Sean, Richard, Pete, Ken and Rob soon made light work of removing the rest of the 'sand and rubble' bank that appeared during the storms two weeks ago - hopefully that's the last we will see of it !

Volunteers needed - (19 September)

Over the last week we have been successfully clearing the river of the debris washed down in the recent 'end of summer' storms.

This coming Saturday morning we would like to pull together a small group of volunteers to continue doing this.

All you need is a pair of good wellies or waders and the ability to pick up stones and throw them as directed - if anyone is available from 10am for a maximum of two hours please meet up outside the screw for 10am.

The plan will be to split into two teams (if we have enough volunteers) one team concentrating on removing the rest of the sand bank washed down the river Sett by the storm and the other team to concentrate moving the stones on the river bed just in front of the weir.

If you are available and would like to help (and possibly get wet in doing so!) then please email me on sean@torrshydro.co.uk

Thanks,

Update : We have 4 volunteers plus two Directors so far.

Maintenance - (18 September)

The work on the lower end of the screw is now scheduled to take place on Monday afternoon with an engineer being flown in from the manufacturers in Germany.

Between now and Monday the tail race of the screw will be made water tight to enable the water to be pumped out to enable easier access. The engineer will arrive Monday lunchtime, the bottom end of the screw will be raised and the flange will be re tightened - it is expected that the screw will be operational again by Monday evening.

Whilst any downtime is unfortunate it has allowed us to test and review our maintenance procedures which has been very successful.

Maintenance - (16 September)

A number of you will have noticed that the screw isn't currently turning today (Tuesday 16), this was to enable maintenance to take place.

As part of this maintenance the lower bearing flange needs to be re tightened thus allowing smoother running of the screw. (I didn't know what a lower bearing flange was before today either).

This work will be planned in over the next couple of days and will involve lifting the lower end of the screw to gain access to the flange.