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South West Water has completed a £4.9 million scheme to improve sea water quality off the south east Devon coast to help it meet new, tougher, European bathing water standards.
The company has constructed a 1,040 cubic metre underground storage tank and a 300 cubic metre underground storage tank at the market town of Liskeard. The additional storm water storage capacity will help to reduce the number of storm discharges of untreated sewage during periods of extremely wet weather.
This work was completed last week, while improvements at the Menheniot Sewage Treatment Works to upgrade its storage and treatment capacity, were completed in January 2015.
South West Water senior project manager Mike Court said the investments will improve bathing water quality and benefit tourism in the region, in time for the start of the official bathing water season on 15 May.
He added: “We believe that, with the help of the local community, this major investment will help deliver even cleaner seas for Seaton and East Looe, in time for the new European bathing water standards.”
South West Water is currently completing a £20 million investment programme to improve bathing water quality in preparation for the tougher EU standards, which come into force at the start of the new bathing water season.
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