Penketh and Great Sankey sewer improvements
Helping to prevent sewer flooding in Penketh and Great Sankey
Some of the sewers and drains in Penketh and Great Sankey dated back to the Victorian times. Since then, the population has grown as the community around Warrington expanded. More houses and businesses mean more water going into our pipes and less permeable surfaces for rainwater to drain into. Our climate is also changing leading to longer, heavier periods of rain. These two factors have resulted in the existing sewers and drains not being able to cope at certain times and homes and businesses in the area flooding.
What we have done
The solution has been a big engineering challenge, but one our engineering experts have solved in other parts of the North West. We increased the size of some of the sewer pipes and built some tanks underground which can store storm water at times of peak and then pump it back into the system when the water has subsided.
We designed the schemes to identify exactly where in the network is most effective to increase the size of the sewer pipes and site the underground storage tanks. Please click on the links below for more details on each scheme.