UNITED UTILITIES - £70M MORECAMBE PLAN

United Utilities is set for a £70m plan to upgrade its wastewater treatment works in Morecambe in an effort to improve the area's coastal waters and beaches.

United Utilities intends to build two large storm water storage tanks and new pumps at its Schola Green Pumping Station, upgrade Morecambe Wastewater Treatment Works at Middleton, and lay a 7km sewer pipe between the two sites.

The proposed new sewer pipe will run from Schola Green Pumping Station, underneath the railway line, around Morecambe FC's ground, along Westcliffe Drive, and across the Heysham Bypass and Middleton Road before entering Morecambe Treatment Works.

United Utilities spokesmen Richard Townsend, said: "As a contributor to the quality of Morecambe's bathing waters, we need to make some improvements to our wastewater treatment to reduce how often storm water spills from the sewers and help ensure that the coastal waters at Project is due to start this spring and take atleast four years to reach the end goal.