Scottish Water’s multi-million pound project to tackle sewer flooding in Giffnock, Glasgow is approaching a key milestone.
Photo: Excavation of storm water storage tank November 2022
Excavation of a giant storm water storage tank is nearly complete after five months of digging and pouring of concrete.
At nearly 13 metres wide and 13 metres deep it can hold the equivalent of more than half an Olympic size swimming pool – 1.6 megalitres - of water during periods of prolonged rainfall.
Georgina Reid, Corporate Affairs manager in the west, said:
“This really is an impressive piece of engineering and is the key to helping alleviate internal and external sewer flooding in the area.
“When you see the sheer scale of the storage tank you get an appreciation of the amount of storm water that will be held back from the local sewer network during periods of heavy rainfall.
“Our contractor George Leslie Ltd has done a great job so far under challenging conditions and is working hard to deliver this much needed project on time.”
Once work on the storage tank and its associated main spill chamber has been completed, the complex job of installing and connecting several hundred metres of new sewer pipes will begin.
Conor McDermott, Project Manager for George Leslie Ltd said :
"Approaching the half-way mark of this project, we are pleased with the progress and happy to report we are currently on schedule for completion in July 2023.
The overall programme of works began at the end of June 2022 and is anticipated to take around 13 months for completion.
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