Hi everyone

Our cabin set up is now in place ready for Phase 2 works to start.

Over the next few weeks you may see a bit of activity around the Northern and Southern Spillway and also on the Dam Crest. We are just going to carry out a few final checks and doing some minor investigation digs to help us with the design.

We will keep access for walkers open during this period.

We hope to commence works to the Dam crest sometime in the middle of March we will keep you posted on how that goes

Many Thanks

Happy New Year everyone

We will be back on site during the rest of January and February setting up the site compound and preparing for phase 2 of the work at Grassholme which is scheduled to start at the beginning of March. We will keep you updated as the weeks progress

Hi everyone

The preliminary work at Grassholme has been completed and we have finished the first stage of work

We will be leaving site now until next February (maybe March!) when the weather improves and we can commence the next phase

There will be updates once we have a date to return

In the meantime we hope you all have a good winter

Best regards

The Grassholme Team

Hello everyone

You may remember my last update where I predicted levels at the Reservoir returning to normal within 2 to 3 weeks? this was allowing for a rise of around 1foot per day and did not take account of the Lunedale weather. As it was the rain brought levels back to normal that weekend and as you can see by the below photographs it is very high right now. Ground work has been slow this last week due to the rain fall but we are continueing to establish the site. Hope this weekends weather is kinder for you

Hello everyone

This week we have completed the last of the ground investigations and enabling work in the wet areas and so the reservoir water level will be allowed to rise in a gradual, managed process. We expect that the reservoir return to normal levels within the next two to three weeks after which activies such as sailing and fishing will return to normal. We will continue with establishing our work site and access route but this shouldnt cause any disruption; then reinstating any affected areas and cleaning the roads of mud from site traffic.

We will be returning to carry out further work on the reservoir early next year, we will advise a date nearer the time depending on weather, and the water  will be reduced again to a similar level where it is now.

Hello everyone

We have started work on establishing the site compound and are now working on the access road to Cote House Caravan Park. We will be removing some sections of the fencing and widening the road to allow for safe vehicle entry and exit, and establishing a road onto the site area for setting up. We will share some photographs when we have a set up in place.

Brian

Hello everyone

We have been carrying out some ground investigation work around the reservoir over the past couple of weeks. This should be finished by the end of this week. Next week we will be starting to establish our site compound with access off the road leading to Cote House Farm Caravan Park. We have selected this location as we think it will be the best location to minimise disruption. 

You may have noticed the current discharge of water through the scour valve into the River Lune. We need to bring the water level in the reservoir down about 4 metres temporarily to do some investigative work. Due to the amount of rain recently we are discharging water through the scour valve into the river. It looks quite spectacular but the river is handling it nicely.

We will further update over the next couple of weeks as the site develops and we have more news.

Morning.

Just a quick note to say a huge thank you to those of you who were able to pop along and meet the project team at theThe Fishing Lodge last night.

The customer event was a huge success and an ideal opportunity for our project team to meet visitors and local residents. 

We were fortunate to have good weather and I was particularly impressed with the stunning location on such a beautiful day.

We will continue to keep you updated and please dont hesitate to keep in touch using the contact us button at the top of the page.

Hi Everyone,

Thought I would take the opportunity to introduce myself.

I'm Amanda Hunt, Customer Care Manager for Northumbrian Water and part of the project team who will be at Grassholme Fishing Lodge from 3pm today. I am really looking forward to it and despite the weather, if your can please feel free to join us and find out more about the project. 

If you can't make it you can always use the 'Contact us' button at the top of this page if you have any queries or would like to speak to us. Whichever way is best, we'd really like to hear from you.

Thanks

Amanda