As part of our long-term Action Plan for Staveley, we’re now starting both long and short-term interventions to improve water quality in the River Kent, reduce flooding at Gowan Terrace and improve water quality. Work has already started within the wastewater treatment works. Designs are finalised and good progress is being made.

This will support our existing treatment infrastructure and further reduce stormwater spills, improved treatment standards and improved water quality in the River Kent.

There will be a total of 3 phases of works, the first is the works which have already started within our exisitng site. This work involves installing some new assets to help us treat more sewage at our works and improve treatment standards.

The other 2 phases of work are due to bein later this year and involve works near Brow Lane to help separate surface water from our system, and near Gowan Terrace and the playground in the village where we are laying some new pipework.

What has been done since February 2025

Pipe re-lining complete
Thanks to surveys done along our network last year, some defects were identified. This meant that extra water was entering our sewer network, putting our wastewater treatment works under extra pressure. We are pleased to say that we have now completed our work to re-line these pipes, totalling 393 metres. We are already seeing the benefits at our treatment site. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused whilst the work was underway.

New lamella unit
Earlier this year we added a new piece of kit to our works called a lamella unit. This is displayed to the image on the right. This is an additional settlement tank to further help with the treatment process and has helped to expand the capacity of the works by an extra 50% of the current site flow. This has reduced spills from the storm overflow considerably, and is an interim measure until the proposed upgrades to our works come online in the future.