{"id":954457,"date":"2026-05-12T08:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/954457\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:58:54","slug":"southern-water-reveals-42m-works-overhaul-plan-for-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/954457\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Water reveals \u00a342m works overhaul plan for Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, the largest single investment in SW&#8217;s plans will be a \u00a310m upgrade at Dymchurch Wastewater Treatment Works, with a further \u00a38.6m earmarked for Hythe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In villages like Elham, Lyminge and Peene, the firm aims to spend \u00a37.5m on sealing sewers, while Sellinge Wastewater Treatment Works is set for a \u00a37.6m overhaul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Similar schemes are also earmarked for Lydd (\u00a33.7m) and Brooklands (\u00a32m), along with improving pump capacity at Range Road, West Hythe and Folkestone Junction wastewater pumping stations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Knight went on to describe the planned works, which will run until 2030, as &#8220;critical&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the largest single investment in SW&#8217;s plans will be a \u00a310m&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-954457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116560787348746555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}