NI Water is currently undertaking essential improvements to the sewerage infrastructure in Downpatrick town centre.

This £3 million programme of work involves the construction of a new pumping station with extra stormwater storage and increased pumping capacities, new pumping mains and sewer upgrades in the Market Street area of Downpatrick.

NI Water and its contractor BSG Civil Engineering Ltd are currently installing the new pumping main from Market Street to the existing terminal pumping station at Russell Park, plus installing an additional section of pumping main required to facilitate the new leisure centre development. The next section of this essential programme of work will involve upgrading several sections of the existing gravity sewer in Market Street.

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The project will facilitate the relocation and upgrading of the existing sewerage pumping station from Market Street to the new site in the existing car park. This will reduce the risk of out of sewer flooding in Market Street, reduce storm overflows during wet weather conditions to the Plank Drain and generally enhance the sewerage system to meet future growth and demand. The programme of work is scheduled to be completed in late 2014.

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