Good afternoon,

You may recall that we provided an update in June 2018 regarding our plans for flood risk management and reduction work in the Harton, The Nook and Cleadon Park areas.

In the months since, we have completed further investigation work on site which has resulted in a commitment to invest £8.5million to reduce the risk of flooding resolve the issues identified in the area.

Northumbrian Water Ltd continue to work closely with South Tyneside Council and are now aiming to start construction work in January 2020. Construction work is expected to take up to 12 months to complete and will span the 2020 Great North Run event.

The preferred solution will provide flood risk reduction for residents in hundreds of properties in the area.This will involve the construction of;

·         a large underground storage tank located within Temple Park complete with above ground kiosk, access track and sewers.

·         a tunnelled sewer from the junction of Prince Edward Road and West Avenue into Temple Park.

·         a new sewer and improved highway drainage from West Avenue through the Nook up to and including Sunderland Road

·         sections of upsized sewers along Prince of Wales Close, West Avenue and South Avenue.

·         surface water storage pipework in the grass verge off Prince Edward Road adjacent to Ingleside and Greenside.Fina

We continue to work together with South Tyneside Council to investigate opportunities to intercept and slow down surface water and will share further details in the coming months.

Finally, localised below ground pipework and cables (gas, BT etc) will need to be diverted to allow us to construct the above works, however, we will provide more information in the coming months prior to any diversion work starting on site.

Regards Paul

Good Afternoon Everyone,

Following on from Paul's update, I just wanted to let you know we are planning some trial holes from Beaconside down to Temple Park via The Nook week commencing 10th September.

We will keep you in formed of the schedule of work as we are conducting the 14 trial holes of which we hope to be complete within 4weeks and whilst we be believe our work won't be too intrusive we just wanted you to be aware of our presence. Paul and I will be out and about next week to talk to you as well to keep you informed so if you see us please ask us any questions you may have about the work. 

Again this is more investigation work so we can be assured the future work we are planning will be conducted correctly, effectively and efficiently with as minimal impact as possible to you.

Thank you

PS.....GOOD LUCK all running in the GNR on Sunday!

Hello,

It’s been a little while since we published an update on the flooding project, however, we have been working hard to develop our preferred solution. You can find out more about our proposed works via the ‘Planned work’ tab above including new downloadable drawings showing the scope of work.

Over the next 6 months we’ll be carrying out some further investigation work out on site to assist with the detailed design and will be in touch will those directly affected before we carry out this work.

We now expect to start the major construction work late August 2019 within Temple Park to establish our temporary compound with drainage work in various areas  commencing straight after the Great North Run. This is major planned work and will take up to 12 months to complete, however, we expect to complete all drainage work in time for the Great North Run in 2020.

We’ll keep you update as we progress our further investigation works in the area.

Many thanks

Hello, just thought I would introduce myself. My name is Sarah Jayne Vickers and I’m working alongside Joan Tatters as a Customer Liaison Coordinator.

I Joined J N Bentley a little over 2 weeks ago and now starting to play a more active role. If you see me out and about be sure to come and say hi!

Further to my previous update, we have started on site today with addition site investigation work which will confirm the underlying ground conditions and help with the development of the preferred solution.

Dunelm Geotechnical & Environmental Ltd will be excavating a number of exploratory boreholes using a typical vehicle and borehole rig similar to the picture below. We will be working within Temple Park for the next week and a half before moving on to locations on Prince Edward Road (typically verge, footpath and parking bays) and expect to be complete by Friday 20 October. Each borehole should take no more than a day and a half to complete and reinstate.

We are currently refine the notional solution and hope to be able to share more detailed plans showing the proposed extent of our works in the near future.

Good morning,

It’s been a while since we provided an update but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy with our investigation work.

The vast majority of the initial survey work is now complete and we currently updating our model of the existing sewer network so we can progress with developing and refining a solution to reduce the risk of flooding in the area.  In the next couple of months, we will be carrying out further site investigation work within Temple Park and along Prince Edward Road to confirm ground conditions, however, we expect to be able to locate this work off the main road to minimise traffic disruption.

This information will help refine the solution and we hope to be able to share more detailed plans showing the proposed extent of our works in the near future.

Regards

Hi everyone

I am Tom Mann and I am the Design Lead for MMB for this project.

Over the next month you will see some of our surveyors around Prince Edward Road and the adjacent streets as we continue to collect data on the existing sewer network. We are also conducting a ground level survey so that we can develop our understanding of the flood risk in the area. The works shouldn’t be too intrusive at all but if you have any questions please feel free to ask the teams anything. During some initial scoping work for these surveys we also identified that a cover to a manhole in Sunderland Road needs replacement so our team will be on site on Wednesday 5th July to complete this repair. The works should hopefully only take a day to complete and we will keep disruption to a minimum.   

Hello Everyone,

Following on from Paul and Amanda, I thought it prudent to introduce myself as well. I am Joan Tatters and I am the Customer Liaison Officer for Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB) who will conducting the work in the area on behalf of Northumbrian Water. I like my colleagues would like to thank the residents who came along to our Customer Event at the Library it was really inspiring to see how the community in the area care so much about their neighbourhood.

Along with my aforementioned colleagues we will be your main points of contact during the work so please feel free to contact us as we would like to hear from you. If you see us out and about please come and say Hello, as Paul says we will make every effort to keep our impact to a minimum and we encourage you to ask us any questions you may have.

Between us we will blog regualarly to keep you informed of our progress so please watch this space!

Hi everyone

I thought this would be a great time to introduce myself. .

My name is Amanda Hunt, Customer Care Manager for Northumbrian Water and part of the project team who was fortunate to meet some of the local residents at Cleadon Park Library last week. Thank you to those of you who were able to pop along and say "Hello".  

As Paul mentions our investigation work in the area will be starting soon, please feel free to stop us for a chat or to feedback on the work we are doing.

As a team, we will be keeping the portal updated. We would love to hear from you so please comment and introduce yourselves or you can simply let us know anything about the area.

Amanda

Good morning,

It was great to see residents at our consultation drop in session last week, thanks very much for taking the time to come down and share your knowledge about the area and flooding issues, this was really useful and will help target our investigation work. It was also a great opportunity to talk through our initial plans and get your feedback.

Investigation work on site will be commencing soon and we will be doing everything we can to minimise disruption while we carry out our work. More information will follow in the coming days.

Kind regards