WE ARE LIVE!!!

Just a quick reminder that our Project Team are currently in Sherburn Community Centre, DH6 1HD until 5.45pm. Feel free to pop down to meet the team, ask questions, there's also plenty of tea, coffee and biscuits!

For those of you who can't make the event, we have decided to make Sherburn Community Portal Live!

Any questions posted between now and 5.45pm will be answered directly. 

Alternativley, if you would like to speak to us in person and can't make it today, we are holding another customer event on Thursday 5th May at Pittington Village Hall (Crossroads, High Pittington DH6 1AN) between 15:15pm and 18:45pm. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

We wrote to residents in your area in November 2020 and again in March 2021, about our essential work to improve the performance and flexibility of our wastewater network and wastewater treatment works in the Pittington and Sherburn areas of County Durham.

Starting this year, as part of the £11 million scheme, we will start work to help improve the water quality of the Coalford and Sherburn Becks, as well as the watercourses downstream. These works include construction of a pumping station at our site at Pittington, installing a 3.5km pipe between Pittington and Sherburn, and upgrading our wastewater treatment works at Sherburn.

We are yet to confirm an exact date when the works will commence, however we anticipiate it to be Summer 2022, and once we have a more precise date we will contact you once again to ensure you’re kept informed and made aware of any possible disruption.

The scheme will last around 18 months, however please be assured that there will be limited, if any, work completed close to customers’ properties during this time, but if you are going to be affected we will let you know. Over the coming months we will be carrying out further investigative work and you may see Northumbrian Water, and our contractors, Mott Macdonald Bentley (MMB), out and about in your area. We may have to dig some holes and use temporary traffic lights at certain locations during this time.

To understand your views about this essential work and how we can minimise any disruption you and your community may experience, wee would like to invite you to attend one of two customer information drop-in sessions we will be holding on the following dates:

• Wednesday 27^th April at Sherburn Community Centre (Front St, Durham DH6 1HD) between 15:15 and 17:45
• Thursday 5^th May at Pittington Village Hall (Crossroads, High Pittington DH6 1AN) between 15:15 and 18:45

Your water and sewerage services will not be affected and employees from Northumbrian Water and MMB will not require access into your home at any time during the work.   

If you have any queries or comments or would like to speak to someone from the project team please get in touch using the ‘Contact us’ button at the top of the page. We’d really like to hear from you.

Regards

Dean Thompson

NW Project Manager

Good afternoon all, we want to make you aware that our investigation work will be starting week commencing 12th April for up to 4 weeks.

MMB will be carrying out Topographic surveys of the land whilst Dunelm will be carrying out the ground investigation work along the proposed pipe route from Pittington to Sherburn.

A topo survey sometimes called a land survey, uses highly specialised survey equipment to measure the position and height of both the artificial and natural topographic features on the site. Examples of natural topographic features Slopes, natural banks, and depressions in the land. Whereas Ground investigations are a means of determining the condition of the ground before beginning construction works. They focus specifically on intrusive geotechnical work such as trial pits and boreholes.

Whilst these surveys are being carried out NWG, MMB or Dunelm will not require access into your homes.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to comment below or use the contact us option at the top of this page.

Thanks

Sarah

Hi everyone,

I hope everyone made the most of Christmas given these challenging times and lets hope for a better 2021.

It's been a couple of months since my last update and we are now finalising our plans. I have now uploaded the drawings that we intend to submit for planning permission purposes.

Please click on the following to view the drawings.

Sherburn

001 - Existing Site Layout

002 - Site Location Plan

003 - New Site Layout

004 - Electrical Panel (MCC) Kiosk Plan & Elevations

005 - Ferric Dosing Kiosk Plan & Elevations

006 - Caustic Dosing Kiosk Plan & Elevations

Pittington

001 - Site Location Plan

002 - Existing Site Layout

003 - New Site Layout

004 - Electrical Panel (MCC) Kiosk Plan & Elevations

Pipeline route

The drawing of the likely pipeline route is for information only and is subject to change and does not require planning permission.

At present we are yet to finalise a construction commencement date, however this is likely to be in the Summer, however we will confirm this closer to the date.

We’d really like to hear your views on this essential work and how we can work with you to minimise any disruption you and your community may experience.

If you have any queries or comments or would like to speak to someone from the project team please get in touch using the ‘Contact us’ button at the top of the page. We’d really like to hear from you.

Regards

Dean Thompson

NW Project Manager

Hi everyone,

I'm Dean Thompson and I'm Northumbrian Water's Project Manager for the work we are planning to carry out in your area. Along with the rest of the project team we will be keeping you updated as the project progresses.

You will have recently received a letter explaining about the work we plan to undertake to improve the performance and flexibility of our wastewater network and treatment works in the Pittington and Sherburn areas of County Durham. This scheme will help to improve the water quality of Coalford and Sherburn Becks as well as the watercourses downstream.

This will involve the replacement of the wastewater treatment works at Pittington with a pumping station. The pumping station will transfer treatment to our Sherburn site. To facilitate this, our Sherburn site will be upgraded to accommodate this.

We’d really like to hear your views on this essential work and how we can work with you to minimise any disruption you and your community may experience. I’ll shortly be adding plans which show where we are planning to carry out. If you have any queries or comments or would like to speak to someone from the project team please get in touch using the ‘Contact us’ button at the top of the page. We’d really like to hear from you.