Another storage tank is being built to help “improve water quality”, a utility company has said.
Work began at the car park next to the Tally Ho pub in Barrow, Cumbria, on Monday on a tank that would be able to hold more than 285,960 gallons (1.3m litres) of storm water, United Utilities (UU) said.
The underground tank is part of UU’s £100m scheme to reduce the number of times storm overflows discharge sewage into the Walney Channel, Irish Sea, and Morecambe Bay during heavy rainfall.
Construction is set to be completed in 2028, with plans under way for water quality schemes at nine locations elsewhere in the town.