OVERALL STRATEGY FOR THE AMP3 PERIOD AND TOP STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
At the core of the strategy for the AMP3 period the Company has focused on a prudent and well targeted programme of investments in its assets to establish and maintain a level of service to customers that is amongst the highest in the industry. On top of this there are obligations imposed which are not as yet clearly defined but which potentially could have a major effect on the Company's activities over the AMP 3 quinquennium and, as a consequence, on water charges.
In this business plan the Company has endeavoured to strike a balance between a strategy based on sound engineering principles, customer service, external pressures and water charges.
The five most important strategic objectives are:-
1. A major renovation of the treatment works supplying the City of Chester
2. A substantial acceleration of the rate of replacement of old cast iron mains in the Chester area
3. The completion of the renovation of old cast iron mains causing discolouration of water in the Wrexham area
4. Work to comply with the new more stringent standard for lead in drinking water
5. A substantial reduction in the occurence of poor pressure problems throughout the area | 
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