Dale Foster, Business Development Manager with leading wastewater technology specialists HUBER Technology UK, takes a look at how new build solutions afford the water companies a better opportunity to meet demanding timescales and tough regulatory targets in AMP8 to deliver speedy improvements to CSO infrastructure - and also keep costs down in terms of both time and money.

As part of its ongoing programme to improve river water quality, Severn Trent Water has awarded Barhale a £16.35 million contract to deliver a major infrastructure project at Etruria Vale in Stoke-on-Trent.

Wastewater treatment specialists HUBER Technology are anticipating further interest in their wastewater technology solutions following the recent announcement that water companies will no longer be able to self-monitor their operational performance.

In the light of Environment Minister Stephen Barclay’s call for water company CEOs to accelerate plans to deliver on sewage spills reductions in the next 12 months, Steve Morris, Managing Director at wastewater technology specialists HUBER Technology UK, takes a look at mitigating risk and delivering supply chain resilience during AMP8.

A temporary new piece of land built out into the Thames as part of work on the super sewer has been re-flooded – years after it was first built.

Southern Water has reported that work to reduce storm overflows in Whitstable is starting to see some positive results.

The Government has published its Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan setting stringent new targets to protect people and the environment. This will require water companies to deliver the largest infrastructure programme in water company history.

Scottish Water is progressing a £2.5 million flood alleviation project in Greenock with the imposition of road restrictions on the major A8 road, which floods regularly during extreme weather, for up to three weeks.

Ofwat has published an update on how the water sector regulator’s current investigation into how wastewater companies in England and Wales manage their sewage treatment works is progressing.

The latest data released by Wessex Water shows that storm overflow discharges in the water company’s region have significantly reduced in the last year. Discharges during the bathing season near designated bathing water locations have more than halved, with 87 occurring between 15 May and 30 September 2021 and 39 during the same period this year.