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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

I've been to site today for a catch up with the team and a walk around to see how we're progressing.

The last week or so has seen a number of visible improvements: we've erected a fence off Beach Road, down towards the school - we've also received delivery of some of the trees and shrubs that will be planted in that area (I've attached a couple of photos of the fence and some of the trees); we've also been working on the landscaping within the school - sadly due to the weather, we had to cancel a planned event there this week (I've attached a couple of photos showing some of the landscaping here as well). There is still a little to do here.

In the next week or two you will notice us starting to remove some of the fencing in preparation for withdrawing. Some of the fencing will remain in place, but we will pull this in as much as we can to allow some access around the outskirts of it - we also intend to cut back some of the overgrowth where necessary.

Regards

Tony

Letter 25 October 2019

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