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West London homes to get sewer flooding solution Thames Water is spending up to £25 million over the next five years on measures to stop basements flooding with sewage at properties in west London. Work from 2010 to 2015 in the Counter's Creek area includes delivering a short-term solution while research and design continues on a long-term solution - a larger sewer network costing several hundred million pounds. Bob Collington, director of operational management for Thames Water, said: "We're desperate to end the misery of sewer flooding, which is a truly horrible experience. "We have yet to get the approval of our economic regulator Ofwat for building a larger Counter's Creek sewer system, but the £25million of funding we've been allowed by Ofwat for the next five years will enable us to provide a short-term fix for the worst-affected properties." Around 1,400 properties have suffered sewer flooding in the past six years and studies suggest up to 7,500 properties could be at risk in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Counter's Creek, one of London's historic "Lost Rivers", is the main sewer for the area.But ist is no longer adequate. because of increasing development and the concreting of green spaces. Over the next five years, Thames Water will install more than 600 pumping systems which force sewage out into the sewer in the road when it would otherwise back up into customers' basements. It is hoped that, subject to Ofwat's approval and the necessary funding being agreed, construction of the new Counter's Creek sewers will begin in 2014/15. Talks are also taking place with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea council to get Thames Water more involved at an earlier stage with developers when they submit planning applications. Source: Utility Week © Faversham House Group Ltd 2010. News articles may be copied or forwarded
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