Yorkshire Water has completed a £500,000 storm overflow project in Hoylandswaine in south Yorkshire to reduce the number of discharges into Ellhirst Beck, improving water quality.
The scheme has seen the lining of 1km of the sewer in the area near Hoylandswaine wastewater treatment works, to reduce levels of groundwater infiltration into the sewer network. This is turn reduces the volume of the flows in the sewer and reduces the need for the storm overflow to operate to protect homes and businesses from flooding.
Contract partner Sapphire Utility Solutions began the work at the start of last summer. Now the project is complete, the number of storm overflow discharges will reduce by 20%.
Martin Ineson, project manager at Yorkshire Water, said:
“We're pleased to have completed these works at Hoylandswaine, as part of our wider £180m investment project across Yorkshire by the end of April 2025 to reduce discharges from storm overflows and improve river water quality.”
The water company is also completing work at Hoylandswaine wastewater treatment works to reduce the levels of Phosphorous in treated wastewater returned to the environment. The Phosphorous reduction project is part of a £500 million investment by 2025 in Phosphorus removal throughout Yorkshire under the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP).
In nearby Barnsley, Yorkshire Water is currently underway with work on four storm overflow projects totalling £9.3 million - at Cloughfields, Jump, Elsecar and Cudworth.
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