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Members of the Scottish Water team: Scott Fraser, Eddy Burns, Jane McKenzie, Mike Will, Jeremy Cox. To buy: c48swt01 |
SCOTTISH Water unveiled its five-stage plan to improve wastewater treatment, stop flooding and prevent spills into Campbeltown Loch on Tuesday.
A team from the authority and its contractors held at open day at Aqualibrium with all its plans on show; more than 50 people attended. The first stage increases the volume of water pumped from Kinloch Park to Slaty Farlan treatment works and the second improves the existing treatment process. Planning applications go to Argyll and Bute Council next month and work starts at Slaty Farlan in January; the first stage will be finished in April and the second by ‘late autumn’.
The third stage will move the controversial outfall pipe from Kinloch Park a further 80 metres into the loch, no planning permission is needed, work starts in April to finish by the end of 2009.
The fourth and fifth stages of the work are the ones that will involve the most upheaval in the town, for a year from March 2009.
A new ‘rising main’ to transfer storm waters will run alongside an existing pipe from Kinloch Park up to Slaty Farlan. Planning permission is still to be confirmed but the plan is to run this along the Esplanade, North Shore Street, Low Askomil Walk and the loch foreshore next to Low Askomil Walk; the fourth stage will improve Low Askomil Walk itself.
This will minimise the risk of foul flooding from the sewer network, Scottish Water says. The fifth and final part is termed long-term investment, with construction of a new outfall wastewater treatment works and final improvements at Slaty Farlan. There will be other work around Woodlands Drive, St John Street, Main Street and McCallum Street. Planning permission will be applied for in summer next year, work will start by April 2010 and finish at the end of 2011.
