Severn Trent launches bathing river programme
Severn Trent has announced what it hailed as the UK’s largest bathing water programme. It will invest £78m to improve 50km of rivers in Warwickshire and Shropshire, and transform 15km of waterways into bathing waters on the River Leam and River Teme by 2025.
The investment will contribute to Severn Trent’s commitment to ensure 90% of people in the Midlands live within an hour’s drive of a bathing water site by 2030. The nearest coastline is 80-120 miles away from the Midlands area Severn Trent serves.
In an immediate step, monitoring systems will begin supplying real time data on water quality every 15 minutes, with monitors and sampling taking place across 50 locations. The company said it plans to create an app to give river water quality status information to members of the public and communities.
MP for Ludlow, Environmental Audit Committee chair and storm overflow campaigner, welcomed the investment – particularly that Severn had put the River Teme in Ludlow “at the forefront of its plans to improve water quality”.
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