Geda Construction has started work on a £2m scheme to improve wastewater treatment in County Down.

NI Water is converting the existing wastewater treatment works (WwTW) in Kilmore to a pumping station (PS), laying a new pumping main to take flows from the new Kilmore PS to Annacloy WwTW and carrying out extensive upgrade work at Annacloy WwTW.

As a result of the investment, significant improvements will also be made at Annacloy. The tanks being installed at the existing site, to the rear of Annacloy Business Park, are modern, fully covered treatment units, which will provide a much higher quality treatment solution.

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The sophisticated processes being installed will increase the capabilities of the sewage works, deliver environmental improvements and ensure stringent EU discharge standards are met for many years to come.

The design of the tanks allows them to be largely buried and to further screen the new infrastructure, landscaping will be undertaken around the site once the construction work is complete.

The work at Kilmore and Annacloy will be confined to the respective WwTW sites and should cause no impact to the local community. However, the pipeline to link the two assets will affect adjoining roads between the two villages and therefore will cause some disruption to traffic.

The pipeline route has been devised to avoid any roadworks through Annacloy village. Sections of the pipe will have to be laid along the Tullynacree and Teconnaught Roads. Unfortunately, the ground conditions in the area do not allow the contractor to utilise underground trenchless methods of construction and the pipeline will have to be laid using open cut methods. In order to complete the work safely, road closures will be required.

(CD/JP)