Watch as giant underground water storage tanks delivered in Leeds as part of ongoing storm overflow schemes

Drivers were forced to stop on Burley Road this week as the trucks carried the various parts that will make up the storage tank underneath the Village Green in Burley.

Work has been ongoing at the site since October to install the tank, which will add 1500m3 storage capacity into the network. The £3.8m project aims to reduce the number of storm overflow discharges into the river Aire.

Kirkstall resident Stuart Long shared the above video of the eye-catching, “abnormal loads” being delivered to the site.

It is one of six projects in Leeds to install storm overflow systems currently ongoing, with the others being at Stourton, Millshaw in Beeston, Headingley Station (Kirkstall Cricket Club), Fraser Avenue in Horsforth, and Wyther Lane in Kirkstall.

The project at Kirkstall Cricket Club began in September and is a £2.3m scheme to create five million litres of storm water of storage. Again, this will reduce storm overflow discharges into the river Aire.

Work is also due to start in April on a £2,9m project to biuld 250m3 of capacity at Spen Lane.

A Yorkshire Water spokesperson said: “Storm overflows across the region are operating more often than we, and our customers, would like, but we’re making significant headway with our project in Leeds to bring the frequency and duration of discharges down 72% by 2030.

”We have six projects underway, and our flagship project - at Millshaw in Beeston that began back in August - is 75% complete. Delivering all of these projects is challenging and will take some time, but we’re committed to making a difference to the health of they city’s watercourses.”