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GENERAL PROJECT

Cullercoats Bay Bathing Water

The WINEP (Cullercoats Bathing Water Study) was completed in April 2022. The work to install a new drainage pipe was a recommendation from the study, to take contaminated groundwater from a disused culvert into the sewer network. NW are in collaboration with North Tyneside Council who have provided a level of funding for the work to proceed. The work is to start on 31 October 2022 and is planned to be complete by Christmas 2022.

Update by Graeme Ridley

Good afternoon,

Sorry but I'm over due for an update, but just needed to confirm with the project team the conclusions of the reports. There has been a significant amount of data from 2021 to provide an evidence based conclusion to the WINEP Cullercoats project. 

Essentially the investigations are now complete as part of Phase 1 and 2 of the study that have found no evidence of NWG assets being a primary cause for the deterioration in bathing water quality. The investigations have indicated that contaminated groundwater is likely to be the primary cause of the bathing water failings.

Potential options have been considered, which include diverting the flow from North Tyneside Council’s, John Street culvert, into our NWG combined sewerage network. Connecting the flow from the culvert into our sewerage network may remove one source of contaminated flows entering the groundwater. However, this would not guarantee that all sources of contaminated flows entering the groundwater would be intercepted. This option is being progressed for delivery in 2022 by the project team.

Out-of-season sampling of the bathing water and of a number of the locations sampled as part of the WINEP study, will be continue with the EA this winter prior to the 2022 bathing water season starting later this year. This includes continued sampling of the two boreholes that were drilled in the public footpath above the beach in August 2021.

I'll keep you up dated as we move into 2022.

Graeme Ridley 

(NWG Project Manager)

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