NI Sewerage Infrastructure Improvement Scheme Begins

A £4.5 million sewerage infrastructure improvement scheme has started in the Holywood/Kinnegar area in Northern Ireland.

The work on the NI Water project is due to be complete by March 2016.

The project involves a programme of sewer laying, tunnelling work and construction of a pumping station in the Holywood/Kinnegar area. The majority of the work will take place in the vicinity of Kinnegar Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) with construction of one of the main sewers across the A2 Belfast/Bangor Road, being done by tunnelling to mitigate traffic disruption. This major engineering project will improve the sewerage infrastructure in the Holywood/Kinnegar area and reduce the likelihood of odour issues.


The project comprises the construction of a new sewer and pumping station that will allow the removal of three Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) at Jackson Road, Strathearn, and Palace Barracks. The new pumping station will also pump sewage flows from the adjacent MOD facility and the Belfast Harbour Estate to Kinnegar WwTW for treatment.

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