Sewage is set to be pumped into temporary holding tanks at Appley, as well as an army of tankers, to facilitate urgent repair works 6 miles away in Yaverland tonight (Wednesday).
As previously reported by Island Echo, Southern Water engineers are working to repair yet another burst pressurised sewer at Yaverland – for the 2nd time this year.
Back in January, tankers were drafted in to allow for emergency repairs to take place and the same is happening again now, just 6 months later. But this time around things are a bit more serious…
To allow the repair works at Yaverland to take place, 2 pumping stations will have to be shut off completely to stop the flow of sewage.
Southern Water has this week been gearing up to divert all of Ryde’s and Seaview’s waste into huge holding tanks above ground at Appley car park, with plans to temporarily stop the sewage going onwards to Sandown overnight tonight. This has rendered the majority of the car park inaccessible for the past 2 days.
It was in 2021 that the Appley area was swamped by a major emergency sewer repair scheme which took 15 months and £7million to complete.
A spokesperson for Southern Water has said:
“We are carrying out overnight repairs on the evening of Wednesday 12 July on a burst sewer pipe in the area of Yaverland Road, near Sandown.
Article continues below this advertisement “To help complete this urgent work as quickly as possible and to avoid any impact to the environment, tankers will be on site to support, as well as temporary storage tanks nearby Appley car park, in agreement with the local authority.
“We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to the community during the important work.”
It has been confirmed that the car park should be fully re-opened on Friday, once the repairs are completed.
UPDATE THURSDAY – It has been confirmed that the overnight repairs were successful, with work now taking place to remove resources associated with the repair.
Hopefully this load of effluent will get taken away and dumped elsewhere?
When we were children the sandbanks at Ryde were covered in rubber johnny’s, and sewage.
It wasn’t unusual to be swimming at Appley and have a ‘floater’ bob against you either and it was rather fun trying to swoosh it away or at a pal.
None of us suffered then as I remember, so they could just re-use the old sewer pipe for a couple of days and discharge it out to sea.
After all that is what was done for over a hundred years up until very recently
Now there is always such a huge fuss over everything, and I am sure Seaview’s effluent has no odour, least the residents ‘act’ as though it hasn’t.
Sounds like a ‘big job’ to me.
Still with ever more bodies filling our land, the sewage issue will only grow ever worse.
That was in the old days before all the effluent was containing all the drugs it does nowadays.
Besides that if you think it’s ok to swim in it your welcome too but I wouldn’t recommend it.
As this burst is presumably in the pipeline that is 20? Years old does this suggest the pipework will not take an increase that will occur if all the new housing gets built at Ryde and Bembridge and we we can expect more of this from now on?
The good old days when we used to bathe in human sh*te and smoke Woodbines in asbestos houses. Never did us any harm. Cough, cough, cough, splutter…
What’s the betting it will be a Bodge job