Taking action in Staveley

22 Mar 2024

We are making a head start on a multi-million-pound, multi-faceted solution to help reduce storm water spills at Staveley wastewater treatment works and to address sewer flooding in Staveley village.

Here's our three-step plan to tackle the complex challenges:

  1. Increasing capacity at Staveley treatment works.
  1. Removing surface water through:
    • funding water butts for all Staveley residents
    • finding SUDS pods at the local school and other suitable locations across the village, such as the community centre
    • supporting a local Council-led project at Brow Lane to remove surface water
  1. Modelling and designing an integrated solution which will include:
    • CCTV-ing the entire local sewer network to understand current flow behaviours
    • installing sewer monitors to collect data about flow through the network
    • sharing our proposed solution design

The solution for Staveley will require input from our partners and stakeholders and we are working closely with the Environment Agency, Natural England and the Lake District National Park (LDNP) in particular.

What are the challenges facing Staveley?