Northumbrian Water is starting work this week on a new flood protection scheme for the County Durham village of Plawsworth.
The company is investing £370,000 on a scheme to improve the sewerage network.
The work, which will begin on Wednesday, September 22 2010, is expected to take three months to complete and will reduce the risk of flooding to a property on Wheatleywell Lane that has flooded in times of extremely heavy rainfall.
The water company will construct 95 metres of new sewer pipe in private land off Wheatleywell Lane, and an underground storm water storage tank will be built in a field at the junction of Wheatleywell Lane and the A167. The tank will hold 126,000 litres of water in times of heavy rainfall, to be returned to the sewerage network afterwards.
Graham Watson, Northumbrian Water’s project manager for the scheme, said:
“Reducing the risk of flooding is one of Northumbrian Water’s main priorities, and this scheme is part of a £1.2 billion investment between 2010 and 2015 to upgrade our vast water and sewerage networks.”
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