News: Yorkshire Water well underway with work on multimillion pound projects in Rotherham
Yorkshire Water has begun work on 27 projects to reduce sewer discharges into watercourses - an investment of £73.5m in the Rotherham area.
A £4.75m scheme at Clifton Park is creating a combined sewer overflow (CSO) to reduce storm overflow discharges into the river Don.
Construction partner, M Group has begun work on a new 345m³ underground storage tank in a field beneath Clifton Park. The tank will store 345,000 litres of excess wastewater during periods of heavy rainfall, before returning it back into waterways once it has been treated.
On completion, the upgrade is expected to reduce annual storm overflow discharges from Clifton Park CSO by around 72%, cutting the annual average from 37 to fewer than ten per year.
A further £1.25m project to separate surface water from the wastewater network is planned at nearby Herringthorpe Playing Fields, helping to reduce the amount of rainfall entering and overloading the sewer system.
The project is expected to take around 18 months to complete.
Vikki Overend, project manager at Yorkshire Water, said: “We know that reducing storm discharges and maintaining healthy waterways are important to our local communities which is why we're continuing to invest in projects that reduce storm overflow discharges and improve the resilience of our wastewater network.
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"This investment at Clifton Park will help us capture and store excess flows during heavy rainfall, significantly reducing the use of the storm overflow and supporting our efforts to improve the health of the river Don."
Work got underway in the summer at Lord Street in Clifton on a £2.3m scheme on a new 80m³ storm tank at empty allotments plots, with new pipework and an overhaul of the existing combined sewer overflow chamber.
Contract partners, Ward & Burke, are also underway with work at Scrooby Street combined sewer overflow (CSO) in Greasbrough, where Yorkshire Water is constructing a new 1,550m³ storm attenuation tank.
The £4.3m project here will provide additional capacity within the sewer network during periods of intense rainfall, helping to reduce storm overflow discharges into Greasbrough Dike and ultimately the River Don. The scheme will take up to 14 months to complete.
At Treeton, a £2.6m investment is being made to reduce sewage discharges from the Treeton Mill Lane combined sewer overflow (CSO). A pipe nest was installed to increase capacity within the network with contractors M Group returning to the area to complete work to build a new combined sewer overflow and decommission redundant parts of the network.
Yorkshire Water is delivering its largest ever environmental investment programme, with £8.3bn set to be invested across the region over the next five years to upgrade infrastructure and improve services.
Yorkshire Water website
Images: Tom Austen
A £4.75m scheme at Clifton Park is creating a combined sewer overflow (CSO) to reduce storm overflow discharges into the river Don.
Construction partner, M Group has begun work on a new 345m³ underground storage tank in a field beneath Clifton Park. The tank will store 345,000 litres of excess wastewater during periods of heavy rainfall, before returning it back into waterways once it has been treated.
On completion, the upgrade is expected to reduce annual storm overflow discharges from Clifton Park CSO by around 72%, cutting the annual average from 37 to fewer than ten per year.
A further £1.25m project to separate surface water from the wastewater network is planned at nearby Herringthorpe Playing Fields, helping to reduce the amount of rainfall entering and overloading the sewer system.
The project is expected to take around 18 months to complete.
Vikki Overend, project manager at Yorkshire Water, said: “We know that reducing storm discharges and maintaining healthy waterways are important to our local communities which is why we're continuing to invest in projects that reduce storm overflow discharges and improve the resilience of our wastewater network.
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"This investment at Clifton Park will help us capture and store excess flows during heavy rainfall, significantly reducing the use of the storm overflow and supporting our efforts to improve the health of the river Don."
Work got underway in the summer at Lord Street in Clifton on a £2.3m scheme on a new 80m³ storm tank at empty allotments plots, with new pipework and an overhaul of the existing combined sewer overflow chamber.
Contract partners, Ward & Burke, are also underway with work at Scrooby Street combined sewer overflow (CSO) in Greasbrough, where Yorkshire Water is constructing a new 1,550m³ storm attenuation tank.
The £4.3m project here will provide additional capacity within the sewer network during periods of intense rainfall, helping to reduce storm overflow discharges into Greasbrough Dike and ultimately the River Don. The scheme will take up to 14 months to complete.
At Treeton, a £2.6m investment is being made to reduce sewage discharges from the Treeton Mill Lane combined sewer overflow (CSO). A pipe nest was installed to increase capacity within the network with contractors M Group returning to the area to complete work to build a new combined sewer overflow and decommission redundant parts of the network.
Yorkshire Water is delivering its largest ever environmental investment programme, with £8.3bn set to be invested across the region over the next five years to upgrade infrastructure and improve services.
Yorkshire Water website
Images: Tom Austen
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