Scottish Water is about to start investment of more than £10m in major improvements to waste water infrastructure in the Yoker area of Glasgow and part of Clydebank, which will help improve the water quality and natural environment of the River Clyde and tackle flooding issues.

The water company'scontractor  George Leslie working for will start work next week on a project on to construct a new Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO)  which will replace two existing CSO’s which currently discharge unscreened waste water into the River Clyde in storm conditions.

When completed in about five months, the new infrastructure will ensure that the waste water is screened before it is spilled into the River Clyde in such conditions.

The £850,000project is part of investment of about £10.5m in improvements to waste water infrastructure in the Yoker area and part of Clydebank, with further projects in other locations due to start in the spring of 2015.

The improvement work in Yoker is part of Scottish Water’s £250m investment in the Greater Glasgow area’s waste water network, the biggest in more than a century. The five-year programme of work to improve its waste water network in the Greater Glasgow area was launched in February 2013.

The work will improve river water quality and the natural environment of the River Clyde and its tributaries, alleviate sewer flooding and deal with the effects of increased rainfall and climate change.

Details of the other projects in will be confirmed in due course.