Regional Development Minister Danny Kennedy has visited the recently completed Magilligan Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW), part of NI Water’s £8m Benone Area Sewerage Scheme.
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The construction of a state-of-the-art wastewater treatment works on a greenfield site previously-owned by the Ministry of Defence lies at the heart of the huge investment.
Designed for population projections to the year 2030, the modern new facility will now treat all sewerage flows from Oughtymoyle, Drumavalley, Aughil, Benone, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) facility and HM Prison Magilligan, before discharging the final effluent to the North Channel via a new outfall pipe at Magilligan Point.
Explaining more about the overall Benone Area Sewerage Scheme and the wider benefits it will bring to the locality, Dermott McCurdy, Head of Wastewater Capital Delivery at NI Water said:
“In an overhaul of the existing arrangements, all current wastewater treatment works at Aughil, Drumavalley and those operated by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and HM Prison Magilligan, were converted to modern new pumping stations. These pumping stations will now transfer all wastewater and stormwater to the new Magilligan WwTW for effective treatment before being discharged to sea through the new outfall pipe at Magilligan Point.
At the new pumping stations many of the highly-visual above-ground buildings were demolished as part of the scheme and tanks were brought as close to ground level as possible. At Magilligan WwTW, the control building has been designed with a curved roof to echo a traditional agricultural building and finished in a subdued ‘field-pattern' colour to integrate with its surroundings. All spoil excavated from the Magilligan site has been reused in landscaping the area around the new works to help ensure the plant blends in with its surroundings.
BSG Civil Engineering was the contractor for the scheme, with AECOM providing design and technical support.
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