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21/02/2005
Water Service announces £100m sewerage upgrade
The Water Service today announced an additional £100 million of funding for the Belfast Sewers Project which aimed to upgrade the city’s sewerage network.
The new investment is part of the tunnelling phase of the Project which in itself is part of a £735 million investment plan to upgrade Northern Ireland’s water and sewerage infrastructure by 2008.
Department for Regional Development Minister, John Spellar, said: "We need £3 billion over the next 20 years to protect public health, meet European standards on water quality and respond to increasing demand.
“Without water and sewerage charges we cannot sustain this investment, unless we take money from other priority services."
The tunnel will be 9.5 kilometres long, up to four metres in diameter and laid at a depth of up to 30 metres. It will follow two routes, from Glenmachan Street near the M1 and from Ormeau Park, converging in the City Centre at Cromac Street. It will then proceed to a pumping station at Belfast Wastewater Treatment Works in Duncrue Street, beside the M2.
Structural repairs to 500 sewers will commence in April and construction work on the tunnel will commence in early 2006. Following completion of the tunnel, further strengthening of the network will involve the upgrading of 19 kilometres of sewer.
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The new investment is part of the tunnelling phase of the Project which in itself is part of a £735 million investment plan to upgrade Northern Ireland’s water and sewerage infrastructure by 2008.
Department for Regional Development Minister, John Spellar, said: "We need £3 billion over the next 20 years to protect public health, meet European standards on water quality and respond to increasing demand.
“Without water and sewerage charges we cannot sustain this investment, unless we take money from other priority services."
The tunnel will be 9.5 kilometres long, up to four metres in diameter and laid at a depth of up to 30 metres. It will follow two routes, from Glenmachan Street near the M1 and from Ormeau Park, converging in the City Centre at Cromac Street. It will then proceed to a pumping station at Belfast Wastewater Treatment Works in Duncrue Street, beside the M2.
Structural repairs to 500 sewers will commence in April and construction work on the tunnel will commence in early 2006. Following completion of the tunnel, further strengthening of the network will involve the upgrading of 19 kilometres of sewer.
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