Yorkshire Water invests £3.3m of upgrades at Garrowby and Bishop Wilton

Yorkshire Water is due to start work on £3.3m of improvements to its clean water and wastewater infrastructure in Garrowby, Bishop Wilton and surrounding villages.

• A £1.8m project to replace 5.3km of water mains to improve the resilience and reliability of the clean water network at Garrowby, Underdale, Painsthorpe and Uncleby
• A £1.5m investment programme in February to reline 3.2km of wastewater sewer main at Bishop Wilton.

Contract partners, O’Connor Utilities (OCU), will start the £1.8m water main replacement work at Roman Road near Garrowby on Monday 9 March and will move onto other rural streets, Leavening Brow, Uncleby Wold, Painsthorpe Lane, and Howe Lane.

Victoria Corbett, project manager, Yorkshire Water, said: “This scheme forms part of a £406m upgrade to our clean water network, which will see us replacing more than 1,000km of water mains across the region by April 2030. We’re prioritising areas prone to bursts and the mains replacement activity will improve the reliability of water supplies, reduce leakage and prevent future bursts, helping us to deliver a better service for our customers.

OCU has started the £1.5m sewer lining project in Bishop Wilton to reline 3.2km of wastewater sewer main. The structural lining work will lower the amount of groundwater infiltration into the wastewater network, improve resilience and reduce the number of discharges from the combined sewer overflow (CSO).

Liam Thomas, project manager at Yorkshire Water, said: “This work forms part of Yorkshire Water’s largest ever environmental investment of £8.3bn over the next five years to improve services for our customers and upgrade our infrastructure.

“It is the first of 13 similar projects across the region to reline areas of our sewer network and deliver targeted improvements to storm overflows across the wastewater network in Yorkshire.”

Further phases will see the removal of surface water connections from the sewer network to take rainwater out of the wastewater treatment process, helping to further reduce discharges from storm overflows during periods of heavy rainfall.

Yorkshire Water is contacting local residents in both villages to advise them of progress and any local disruption.  The 3.2km relining work is expected to complete in early spring and mains renewal scheduled to complete in June.  Other relining projects are earmarked at Burton Constable, Wass, Sheriff Hutton and Snape.