TWO projects have begun which should significantly improve the treatment of waste water for two North Yorkshire villages.
Yorkshire Water has started work on the projects, at Kirby Misperton and Marton, near Pickering, and they should be completed by the autumn. The work is expected to be of environmental benefit to the water courses in the area, Costa Beck and the River Seven.
The schemes are part of the company's £400m RiverCare programme of work to upgrade inland sewage works, storm overflows and sewers and involves a new sewage treatment plant to treat effluent within the public sewer system.
Project manger Gerry Smith said: "We are improving the level of treatment which the sewage receives. Because of this change we need to apply for a consent from the Environment Agency.
"I must stress this consent improves the quality of the discharge entering the rivers. Our business is to improve the environment and not to harm it."
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