£2m Dishforth mains replacement project underway

Yorkshire Water has begun a £2m project to replace 4.5km of water mains in the centre of Dishforth, north Yorkshire. 

The mains will be replaced to improve reliability of drinking water supply, reduce leakage and prevent water main bursts in the area. The work is part of Yorkshire Water’s £406m investment to replace more than 1,000km of water mains across the region over the next five years. 

Nichola Fairbairn, project manager at Yorkshire Water, said: “As part of Yorkshire Water’s largest ever investment, we are delivering a significant upgrade to our clean water network by replacing 238km of mains in Yorkshire over the next 12 months – Dishforth is one of the first areas to undergo the works.  

“It’s a really important scheme which will help us to deliver the quality and reliability of service that our customers expect – with bursts and loss of supply much less likely.” 

The project follows 12 bursts in the area over the last five years. 

Contract partners United Living are underway with work in Dishforth Village between the junction of Topcliffe Road to just after the junction with Baynes Drive. For the safety of residents, road users, and colleagues, temporary traffic management is in place around the working area, which will move as work progresses. 

From 14 April, Dishforth Road will also have a rolling road closure as United Living progress the scheme. The closures will be in 300m sections, starting at the junction from the A1, working towards Sharrow, and finishing just after the junction with Strait Lane.  Diversions will be in place.  

Nichola added: “We’ll be working quickly and doing everything that we can to keep disruption to a minimum whilst we deliver this important work.”  

The project is expected to complete at the end of June. 
 
Yorkshire Water recently invested £4.8m in its Dishforth wastewater treatment works to improve water quality in the river Swale and to expand the capacity of the site to cope with increased flows coming from new developments in the area.