Yorkshire Water completes storm overflow improvement scheme in Beeston
A £2.4m overflow scheme aimed at reducing storm discharges into Farley Wood Beck has been completed
Yorkshire Water has completed a project in Beeston to reduce water discharges flowing into Farnley Wood Beck.
It marks the first scheme in the current £1.5 billion storm overflow programme to be completed.
The scheme at Millshaw Combined Storm Overflow (CSO) started the wider programme in August last year as the first of more than 450 planned schemes to be completed by early 2030.
The £2.4 million scheme has seen the installation of a new underground storage tank capable of holding 260m³ of flow within the combined sewer network, which transports rainwater and wastewater to a local treatment site.
Built on private land, the installation took nine months to build and connect to the network.
Storage tanks add extra capacity to the network, ensuring the system can hold excess wastewater during periods of bad weather, preventing it from being discharged.
Flows are then sent for treatment once network capacity has returned to normal levels.
A £0.5 million scheme to replace the filtering screen at a storm overflow to reduce the risk of sewer debris entering the River Aire during a discharge has also recently been completed in Stourton.
A Yorkshire Water spokesperson said: "We are making great progress in Leeds, where we have a target of reducing the number of discharges by 72 per cent by 2030.
"Now that we have completed the first couple of projects, we are delivering on our commitment to improve our impact on river health."