£1mfloodprotection programmefinished
A £1 MILLION programme to protect homes from flooding in Drumchapel has been completed.
Scottish Water has finished work in the Summerhill Road area which they said would help six homes that had faced flooding issues.
Three large pipes – each 80 metres long – have been installed to help divert water during periods of heavy rainfall which the water company said there was “insufficient capacity” in the network to cope with.
A spokesman said the work would help two properties that faced internal flooding, and four affected by external flooding. The four had been on the sewer flooding register.
Joanna Peebles, Scottish Water regional communities team manager, said: “We are very pleased to have completed this important project.
“We would like to thank affected customers for their patience, understanding and co-operation during this work.”
She said some further reinstatement work on the land was still to be carried out and would be done when weather and ground conditions allowed.
The project is part of Scottish Water’s £250m, five-year investment in improvements to its waste water i nfrastructure across the Greater Glasgow area, the biggest in more than a century.
The work includes the three-mile long Shieldhall Tunnel which will be five times longer than the Clyde Tunnel and big enough to fit a double decker bus inside.
A huge boring machine (TBM) is drilling Scotland’s biggest ever waste water tunnel between Craigton and Queen’s Park.
The (TBM) will create a passage 4.7 metres in diameter.
The Shieldhall Tunnel is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
A separate half milelong new sewer tunnel is to be installed beneath the streets of the Yoker area of Glasgow as part of a £7m project to help improve the water quality of the River Clyde and tackle flooding issues.
Scottish Water believes the upgrading will ensure that “some of the Glasgow area’s key underground assets are able to cope with its aboveground aspirations”.