£1m water mains upgrade starting soon at North Newbald

Yorkshire Water is due to start a £1m scheme to upgrade the clean water network in North Newbald to provide a resilience and reliable supply for customers in the area.

This essential upgrade will see over 4.4km of clean water mains replaced at the East Riding village, reducing the likelihood of future bursts, loss of supply or low pressure.

Contract partners, OCU Group, will start on site on Monday 27 July and a rolling road closure will be in place on Beverley Road, starting at the junction of Stoneknowle Hill to the junction of Bushey Lane until early September.  Further work will take place at Walkington Heads between Bushey Lane and Littlewood Farm.

Victoria Corbett, project manager at Yorkshire Water, said: “This is part of our largest ever investment programme of £8.3bn to strengthen infrastructure and improve services for our customers

“Replacing old pipes, prone to bursts and leaks will lower the risk of issues in the future, which helps us to save water and reduces supply interruptions for our customers.  We’ve worked closely with local highways to plan our rolling programme of work and keep disruption to a minimum.”

The work should take six weeks to completed and Yorkshire Water is in contact with local residents to keep them up to date on progress.

“Victoria continues: “OCU Group will be working as quickly as possible to compete these important upgrades in North Newbald and we would like to thank everyone in the area for their patience as we carry out this mains replacement work.  We will also make sure that any restrictions are removed over the weekend of the Beverley half marathon.”