Severn Trent to invest over £640 million to improve river health in Staffordshire
Severn Trent has announced it will invest over £640 million in improving river health in Staffordshire.
The water company will make the investment over a 25-year period up to 2050, as part of its plans to reduce spills from storm overflows across the county.
A total of 339 storm overflows across Staffordshire will undergo investment – which could range from increasing the capacity of its storage tanks to introducing green nature-based solutions. The company is also investing to ensure rivers are monitored closer than ever before to help protect them from harm.
The investment for Staffordshire forms part of a wider £4.4bn injection into 2,400 storm overflows across the Severn Trent region, as part of the water company’s Storm Overflow Action Plan (SOAP).
The aim is to reduce the number of spills into water courses across the county, ensuring that by 2040 no overflow will spill more than 10 times in an average year in high priority areas, and in all areas by 2045.
Since launching its Get River Positive, Severn Trent has delivered strong results and committed to significant investment in Staffordshire, including;
As schemes progress more detail will be shared on what action is planned for every storm overflow in every waterbody. A live ‘Event Duration Monitor’ map is due to be launched later this year, which will be a great tool for people to see what investment plans are taking place on all storm overflows across the region.
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