Barnsley’s £11m wastewater treatment works upgrades starts at Worsbrough

Work is underway at Worsborough Wastewater treatment site, Edmunds Road, Barnsley to prep it for £3.99m upgrade to improve performance.

It’s one of five major wastewater treatment site upgrades across Barnsley to benefit from £11m investment.  The water quality improvement plan will reduce Phosphorus levels and provide an additional 1,000m³ storage capacity, reducing storm discharges into local water courses, following prolonged and heavy rainfall.

Remediation work is almost completed in readiness for the £4m upgrade.  This includes a repair to one of the lagoon tanks, replacing the aeration units with quieter, underground units, to create a quieter operation, and the installation of a new operational storm tank.

Sam Akeroyd, capital delivery programme manager, Yorkshire Water, said:  “The investment and improvements we are making at Worsbrough is part of our programme to continue to improve water quality and river health.  The new storm overflow tank will increase the site’s storage capacity.  This will lower the frequency and duration of storm overflows discharging into local water courses following periods of heavy and prolonged rainfall.

“Our contract partners Ward & Burke and Barhale are condensing activities to work as quickly as they can to complete the project and keep disruption to a minimum.  We’d like to thank local residents for their patience whilst we carry out this important work.”