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Monks Wood, North Shields Surface Attenuation

We are currently on site adjacent to Beach Road. Our scheme is to separate surface water flows from the combined sewerage system and store the excessive flows during storms. To do this, we are constructing new surface water and combined sewers together with a series of cascading basins in which to hold back the flows until the storm subsides and the existing sewerage system can accept the storm water.

Update by Anthony Birkett

Hi Everyone

We'd just like to provide an update on the progress of our work off Beach Road. We had planned to complete the work by the end of October 2019, however due to the inclement weather and ground conditions we've experienced this year, we now expect to finish by 20 December 2019.

What will happen next?

- over the next 8 weeks the site team will continue planting the planned trees and shrubs

- the paths will be reopened

- we will remove the site compound completely by Christmas

- the fencing around the basins will remain in place over the winter

- we will return in Sprin 2020 when the weather is more favourable to complete the reinstatements

We will be in touch before returning to let you know exactly when work will start again.

We've been out and about lately delivering a letter to those close to the work. A copy of the letter we have recently delivered can be found here.

Please accept our apologies for the incovenience caused.

Regards

Tony

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