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| 21ST - 27TH SEPTEMBER 2018 | UTILITY WEEK
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A massive 10m-deep and 20m-wide
storage tank that will protect 27 homes
in the Attlee Drive area of Goole from
flooding has reached a milestone with
a "pizza slice"-style lid now lied into
place.
Yorkshire Water's £6 million
project, which began 15 months
ago, has seen the construction of an
underground storage tank along with
new sewers to increase the capacity of
the local sewerage network. This will
mean more rain water can be stored
to cope with heavy rainfall, reducing
the chance of it spilling out on to the
surface.
Due to be completed by December,
the storage tank will be capable of
holding more than 2.5 million litres
of stormwater in wet weather, which
Putting a lid on it
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