West Wylam Sewage Pumping Station

Hello everyone

From the beginning of the project we made the decision to minimise the impact on the local environment and residents. For this reason trench digging across the playing fields was never going to be an option so a ‘no dig’ method was adopted tunnelling underground.

The problem we are encountering at the moment is there are number of large boulders underground all over the field (see photo) and they are causing us extra work.

At the moment we are running a couple of weeks over schedule due to this and environmental issues in the Wood (Newts!) so progress is steady, steadier than we would like but we are pushing on.

The work on the overbridge is almost complete so we hope to get the temporary traffic lights removed soon.

Thank you all for bearing with us during the work, I will keep you updated on our progress as much as possible.

Hope you all have a good bank holiday weekend, the forecast isn’t great but it might surprise us, we will be back at work on Tuesday.

Brian