Yorkshire Water £1.15m investment starts at Monk Bretton Barnsley

Work will start on site on Monday 1 September to replace 2.5km of water mains network in Monk Bretton, Barnsley as part of as part of £1.15m investment by Yorkshire Water to upgrade the clean water network.

Contract partners, Galliford Try and Heffernan Utilities will start work at Bryon Drive and Bodmin Court before moving onto surrounding streets.    A second team will begin mains replacement work at the residential areas of Bodmin Court, Sennen Croft and Truro Court with the same arrangements in place. Road closures and traffic management will be in place to keep everyone safe and access for residents maintained throughout.

Shaun Chapman, project manager, Yorkshire Water, said:   “This essential work is part of Yorkshire Water’s largest ever environmental investment programme and represents part of our £406m scheme to renew over 1,000km of clean water pops across Yorkshire over the next five years.

“We’re prioritising areas prone to bursts to reduce the likelihood of future bursts and improve supply and reliability for customers.  This is one of 16 priority schemes identified in Barnsley over the next two years including work already started at Jump, Cawthorne and Wilthorpe to replace 20.7km of existing pipework with a robust and resilient network.

Yorkshire Water has worked closely with local authority highways teams to make sure that temporary lights and traffic management are in place for safety and the utility is in contact with local residents to keep them up to date with activity in their local area. 

Shaun continued:  “We’re working at pace to get this important replacement work completed as quickly as we can.  On completion, the new clean water infrastructure will provide a network built to withstand high pressure and temperature variations, resulting in fewer bursts, lower leakage and a reduction in water supply interruption for customers.”

This phase of the project is expected to complete in early October.