Anglian Water will plough £1.8 million into the Cleethorpes and Humberston Fitties coastline over the next five years as part of its ongoing commitment to help improve the cleanliness of the local bathing waters.
£1.6m will be spent at the water recycling centre at Newton Marsh to ensure bathing water quality in the out-of-season months of October, March and April is as good as it is during the peak summer bathing season.
The upgrades to the Newton Marsh Water Recycling Centre will be completed by April 2016.
In addition to this upgrade, a dedicated Coastal Catchment Manager has been recruited for Lincolnshire to accelerate local partnerships and projects; money will also be spent on upgrading parts of the sewer network and on tackling third party pollution that has a major impact on the quality of bathing waters.
Third party, or diffuse pollution, has a serious impact on the cleanliness of bathing waters and is the main cause of poor bathing water quality in the Eastern region. It includes pollutants from urban areas, farmland and other sources such as dog mess and misconnected drains which are washed into the sea when it rains.
Jo Hayward, Anglian Water’s Coastal Catchment Manager in Lincolnshire, said:
"Diffuse pollution by its very nature is a difficult jigsaw to piece together. Pollution can come from a variety of different sources and we have to work closely with other partners if we are to tackle the root causes.
“We’ve set aside £150,000 to enable us to do more partnership work with local authorities, the Environment Agency, and other local groups and to help pinpoint the local issues.”
To help trace the sources of diffuse pollution, Anglian Water will also be pioneering an approach from the air using state-of-the-art aerial surveys to identify where sources of pollution are entering marine waters. This will accompany more traditional investigative techniques such as CCTV surveys, dye tracing, sampling and on-foot surveys of the coastal catchment.
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