Yorkshire Water invest £3m to upgrade Wentworth wastewater treatment works

Yorkshire Water is investing £3m at its Wentworth Wastewater Treatment Works to increase capacity and improve performance.

Contract partners Mott MacDonald Bentley will start on site on Monday 22nd September at Hague Lane, Wentworth, Rotherham, to install a new sewage pumping station (SPS), 1.25km Rising Main and Gravity Sewer.  

This £3m investment will intercept wastewater from Hague Lane, transferring it to the Aldwarke wastewater treatment works, adding capacity to the local infrastructure.  

This additional capacity will help to reduce the number of discharges going into the watercourse during periods of heavy or prolonged rainfall and improve water quality.

Jamie Wright, Project Manager, Yorkshire Water, said: “We’ve been working closely with our partners and Rotherham Council Planning Department to make sure the visual impact of the new pumping station complements the local landscape.

“This is a significant investment by Yorkshire Water to add extra capacity to the network.  There will be a temporary road closure and diversion in place as we lay a significant amount of new pipework to complete this important upgrade.  

“We’ve worked closely with local Highways to bring forward this element of the work to minimise impact to the garden centre and local businesses in the run up to their busy Christmas season."

From Monday 22 September Hague Lane will be closed at the junction of Main Street and Cortworth Lane to Vehicles.  A signed diversion will be in place with access to the garden centre, via Thorpe Hesley and continued access throughout via footpath.

Jamie continued: “We will be working at pace to remove the road closure as quickly as possible.  We’ll change to temporary traffic lights at Cortworth Lane, beginning at the Hague Lane junction from early October.”

A community drop-in event will be held at The Mechanics Institute, Wentworth, on the evening of Thursday 25 September for residents and local businesses to come along and find out more about the investment and improvements of the scheme.