Better Water, Environment and Development for East Renfrewshire

Our Vision 2010 for East Renfrewshire is to provide more reliable supplies of clearer, fresher drinking water, improve the environment and enable development – will see the area benefit to the tune of more than £15m over the next two years.

Jim Hassan, Scottish Water’s regional manager, and East Renfrewshire Council leader Councillor Jim Fletcher at the Gorbals Waterworks in East Renfrewshire.

Scottish Water has identified more than £2.5m to be invested on improving drinking water quality and more than £2m on improving the environment.

Water projects include:

• The £3.5m upgrade of the Picketlaw Water Treatment Works, the biggest project in East Renfrewshire in the two-year period, which will help deliver better quality drinking water to about 36,000 customers in the Eaglesham and Newton Mearns areas. The project, which is due to start late this summer and be completed next spring, will also improve the security of supply.
• A £2.5m upgrade of South Moorhouse Water Treatment works will provide better quality drinking water to about 20,000 people in parts of Newton Mearns. The improvement at South Moorhouse which, like the Picketlaw works is about 15 years old, will also provide improved security of supply. Work started in January and is expected to be completed soon.
• The new £120m Milngavie Water Treatment Works, which came on line in  September last year, is also supplying better quality drinking water to about 12,000 people in the Barrhead area.
• Customers throughout East Renfrewshire are also benefitting from better quality drinking water as a result of £60,000 worth of mains rehabilitation work in the Barrhead area and £115,000 of mains rehabilitation in the Waterside area, which was also completed in spring last year.