Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Labour M.P., Ashok Kumar, will tomorrow (Wednesday 30th July) at 2.30 p.m. be inviting Iain Wright M.P., the M.P, for Hartlepool and a Minister in the Department for Communities and Local Government to see the progress of flood control measures in the Pine Road area of Guisborough.
Ashok said "Flooding after heavy rain had been a long standing problem in the Pine Road and Bolckow Street area of the town and after being contacted by residents I put pressure on Northumbrian Water to bring forward their programme for sewer improvement and rain-water run-off facilities. This has paid off with work now well underway, and I want to pay thanks to both John Cuthbert, Northumbrian Waters Managing Director, and John Mowbray, their head of Corporate Affairs, for their help in solving this problem."
"The works are being managed in partnership with Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council and I want Iain Wright, as a Local Government and Planning Minister, to see how this partnership between NW, the council and local Labour ward councillors has paid off for local people who will no longer have to live in fear of winter flooding".
Richard Woodhouse of Northumbrian Water, said: 'Work is on schedule, with 600m of sewer pipe now in place. A Combined Sewer Overflow structure, which discharges wastewater into watercourses in times of very heavy rainfall to protect properties and surrounding land from flooding, will be constructed in the next few weeks. We are continuing to liaise with residents and other agencies involved.'
Northumbrian Water have invested £3 million to upgrade this section of the sewerage network. The work involves upgrading 1500 metres of sewer pipe and the construction of a screened combined sewer overflow. Northumbrian Water say that in times of heavy rainfall the quantity of rainwater entering the sewerage network had resulted in flooding to properties in Pine Road and Bolckow Street and that this improvement work will significantly reduce the risk of flooding to these properties.
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