| Yorkshire Water awards contracts to upgrade its facilities |
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| Saturday, 14 July 2007 | |
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Yorkshire Water has awarded two contracts worth nearly £32 million to the Earth Tech/Morrison Construction joint venture, to upgrade its wastewater treatment plants. One of the contacts valued at £6.7 million, tasks the Earth Tech/Morrison joint venture with upgrading a wastewater treatment plant at Lundwood near Barnsley. The project work includes construction of an activated sludge plant, two final settlement tanks, sludge treatment facilities and sludge storage tanks in an effort to improve the final effluent to meet the Freshwater Fish Directive standards and to increase the life of the existing treatment plant. This phase of the development is due to be completed in early 2009. The second contract worth £25 million will see improvements at the Mitchell Laithes plant to enable the facility to increase its current capacity of 1,380 litres per second to 2,315 as well as meet new effluent discharge consent standards imposed as a result of the Freshwater Fish Directive. The project work is due for completion by March 2010.
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