Scottish Water has completed a £3.2 million project to alleviate flooding in Creetown.
The two-and-a-half year scheme saw action taken to reduce the risk of sewer flooding and improve the quality of stormwater discharges back to the environment. Some parts of the village have previously experienced flooding issues, particularly when the tidal waters are high.
The project team witnessed some of the problems first-hand during particularly wet weather in May 2014.
Project Manager Jim Gordon said:
“We saw for ourselves how, during torrential rain and heavily swollen rivers, storm water backed up through a manhole into a garden. The project will help reduce the risk of such sewer flooding occurring again.”
Works included building a new storm water pumping station to double the capacity of the existing pump station and to provide fine screening to remove solids from storm discharges to the local watercourse. The main sewer passing through nearby Creetown Caravan Park was also upgraded, with the pipe being increased in size from 200mm to 450mm in diameter to create extra sewer capacity and reduce the risk of upstream sewer surcharging.
The project also included construction of a major new storm water pumping station at Balloch Burn, which can pump up to 220 litres per second or nearly 50 gallons of water per second, discharging storm water away from the village’s sewer network and into the estuary ensuring the system does not surcharge due to high tides.
The new pumped systems have full automatic 100 per cent standby capacity and are remotely monitored 24 hours a day by Scottish Water’s control centre, meaning any issues can be identified and responded to quickly.
Other improvement works included upgrades to a series of outfall pipes into the Moneypool Burn, all of which were fitted with new screens to remove solids from storm water and help protect the quality of the local rivers and coastal waters.
The first phase of the works was carried out by Carillion, with phase two being delivered by Byzak/Amey.
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