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Blyth Sewage Treatment Works Refurbishment

We are going to invest £1.3 million to maintain the quality of the River Blyth estuary and coastal waters for the benefit of people, the environment and wildlife. The existing sewage treatment works was completely rebuilt in 2000 and in recent years it was discovered that some of the concrete structures have started to show significant deterioration. Our work will repair a concrete structure that is essential for treating wastewater from the Blyth area to make sure the estuary and coastal waters remain in good condition.

Update by Colin Burdon

Hello, I'm Colin Burdon and I'm a Project Manager at Northumbrian Water.  Construction has now started at Blyth Sewage Treatment Works and here is a short update.

The concrete repair work is planned to start in five months time because our first stage of works is installing bypass pipework around the chamber that needs repairing.

This will provide a different route for the wastewater arriving (via the sewer system) at 200-300 litres per second as it flows to the treatment tanks.  By doing this we will have safe access into the chamber and a dry environment for the concrete to set and valve repairs to be made.  As part of installing the different pipe route, we need to cut into the existing pipes and we prefer to do this when it it not snowing or raining - the arrival of drier weather allowed us to start our first tie in yesterday!  I'm keeping a closer eye on the weather than usual and I hope the forecast for snow showers this bank holiday weekend isn't true.

I'll provide an update next month, but feel free to post any queries you have about the project here in the meantime.  Myself and my colleagues will respond as soon as we can.

Thank you.

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