The Metropolitan Glasgow Strategic Drainage Partnership

Scottish Water has been working with its key partners at the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Enterprise and Glasgow City Council to tackle the issues of drainage and sewerage in the metropolitan Glasgow area since 2002, when the city suffered major flooding.

We have progressed a range of measures to reduce the risk of flooding, including: fast action Scottish Water ‘choke squads’ to clear sewers; council ‘hit squads’ to clear watercourses; multi-million pound investment in sewerage improvements; and the removal of almost 500 properties from the At Risk flood register.

This partnership, which will also include North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire councils, is now at a crucial stage.

The measures taken since 2002 are a start, but major investment and effort will be required over the next 25 years to ensure that metropolitan Glasgow’s drainage network can cope with a changing climate, improve the environment and support modern development requirements.

If you would like to find out more, read our first information bulletin (pdf) which looks at what has been done and the future plans to upgrade the network.