Kent town set for smart new sewer installation
Library image – Road closure Southern Water is adding AI technology to its underground network in an effort to cut storm overflows in Whitstable. The technology will harness the power…
Warm up winter with £30k in grants for Community Centres!
Community centres across Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight have a golden opportunity to secure funding from Southern Water to help keep their doors open and their communities…
Ray’s 100 year old photo shows generational change at Southern Water’s Whitstable works
left to right – Southern Water contractors – Lee Barrass, CMDP , Cliffe Coates, Mackleys ,Dan Erangey CMDP, Ray Chapman, Carl Coates, Mackleys and Dave Barnfield, Van Oord. Engineers working…
Work on new 1km waste water outfall pipe from north Kent coast completed
Work on the new outfall pipe at Swaleciffe Photo: Southern Water Southern Water has completed the controlled sinking of a new outfall pipe nearly one kilometre long at Swalecliffe on…
Rainwater used in Gillingham to flush the loos!
The Riverside Country Park nature reserve in Gillingham is benefiting from a new 2,350 litre rainwater tank – which serves the toilets at the park’s visitor centre thanks to the…
Folkestone and Hythe MP ‘on the case’ of bathing water pollution
Constituency matters… a weekly column by the Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe, Damian Collins OBE 23 April 2024. Bathing water quality in Hythe Bay Earlier this month I…
Multi-million pound project to upgrade Ashford Wastewater Treatment Works begins with mega tank!
Library image – Flooding Work on a new tank which will increase capacity for storm water to handle 7.5 million litres during wet weather before it is fully treated and…
First ultramodern £205,000 disabled toilet in Folkestone and Dymchurch opens its doors
The first of three new Changing Places toilets in the district has been officially opened. Representatives of local groups Need2Change and Wild With Wheels cut the ribbon at the Lower…
Folkestone and Hythe MP says water companies must be held to account over sewage discharges
Constituency matters… a weekly column by the Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe, Damian Collins OBE 29 March 2024. Tourism The Easter weekend always feels like the start of…
Southern Water ‘sorry’ for Whitstable sewage burst
Following a sewer pipe burst in Bishopstone on Saturday 23 March, which led to sewage flowing into Bishopstone Glen, Southern Water has now completed repairs. The spill from the leaking…