Conwell Contracts and NI Water are to begin work on a £60,000 storm sewer project in Newry.

The scheme involves laying around 165 metres of storm sewer and associated manholes on New Street and Canal Street to serve a new social housing development.

The first stage of the project will begin on New Street from 24 September. Following completion of this section, work will then progress onto Canal Street. The scheme is scheduled to take six weeks to complete.

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For safety reasons, the following temporary lane/road closures will be in place;

• Phase 1 - A lane closure will be in place for two weeks on New Street and Canal Street, with no right turn from Canal Street onto New Street

• Phase 2 - The southern end of Canal Street will be closed for two weeks

• Phase 3 - The northern end of Canal Street and the junction with New Street will be closed for two weeks. There will be no through traffic on the southern end of Canal Street during this time.

Grahame Millar, project sponsor, said: "NI Water is pleased to install this new storm sewer to facilitate the development of 15 new property units at Ogle House for social housing.

"The removal of storm water from the existing combined sewer will also increase the capacity of the existing sewers as well as reducing the likelihood for out-of-sewer flooding and environmental pollution in the future."

(LM/CM)