We have recently been on a very interesting and informative, and a little smelly at times, visit to view the £39 million modernisation of Melton Mowbray Sewage Treatment Works.
This was completed in autumn 2024 to ensure the system can deal with significantly higher demands. Machinery and equipment – some of it dating back to the 1960s – has been replaced with state-of-the-art technology which will serve the area for the next couple of decades.
An overhaul of the site was needed by Severn Trent due to the additional pressure placed on their networks by a growing population, with the many new housing developments taking shape around the town, and increasingly extreme weather events as a result of climate change.
After treatment and purifying the sewage is put into the local stream which then flows into the River Wreake.
