Hi

You may have noted in the local press formal Notices from Northumberland County Council for road, or lane closures, associated with the works proposed within Prudhoe, Ovingham and Wylam. Concerns have been raised that the closure will have a significant impact on access to property within and beyond the extent of the closure.

Traditional open cut sewer installation will be adopted to install most of the new drainage proposed. The work will consist of excavating a trench, installing trench support, laying the new sewer, removing the trench support, backfilling and reinstatement. When working space is restricted road closures are sometimes required. The contractor would typically work within approximately 40 - 50m of road at any one time, by working in this way we will maintain access to properties within the overall road closure zone. When working directly adjacent to property access to driveways will be restricted. To maintain access any junctions will be crossed in "two halves". Outside working hours access to cul-de-sacs beyond the road closures will be maintained, during working hours there may short periods were access is restricted, you will be able to park within 25m of your property during these periods. Footpaths will remain open at all times.   With construction work it is inevitable that there will be some disruption, we will do everything we can to keep any disruption and inconvenience to a minimum     

Kind Regards

Ian

NWL Project Manager

On Saturday 23 July we joined hundreds of people at Ovi-fun day and had a fantastic afternoon!

It was a really great turn out and thankfully the weather was kind. People enjoyed Olympic-themed games including relay races, welly wanging, a goalie football challenge and craft and food stalls.

We were there to talk about our Rainwise project in the area and help reduce sewer flooding by raising awareness about what can and can't be put down the toilet and sink. Visitors also got the chance to play on our new Dwaine Pipe game which you can download free from the App Store and GooglePlay!

I've uploaded some photos below of one of our visitors enjoying our Dwaine mask and balloon, and of our colleague Sam with stilt-walking Mary the Faerie!

Hi everyone, my name is Ian Davison and I am the Project Manager for the work we are planning on carrying out in your area. 

We are working with communities to proactively manage the amount of rainwater in our sewer network through our surface water programme, Rainwise. This will help to reduce the risk of flooding in future, including to those who have never flooded before.

We’ve identified a flood risk reduction opportunity in Ovingham and myself and the rest of the project team will be keeping you updated as our plans for Ovingham progress. I’ve just added a plan which gives you an overview of where we are planning to carry out work and you can download it here, or by checking out the ‘Planned work’ page. 

We’d like to hear from you if you have any feedback about our proposal or want to make us aware of any issues surrounding surface water in your area. Through this scheme we really want to understand where surface water in the area goes during heavy rainfall.

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