An environmental improvement project to tackle the issue of flooding in the Temple area of Glasgow has been completed by Scottish Water.

The £1.9m investment to the network will help reduce the risk of flooding in the Shafton Road area, where more than 60 homes have been subject to repeated flooding in recent years.

To minimise the risk of flooding in the affected area, where 27 properties have been affected by internal flooding and 35 by external flooding, Scottish Water installed a Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) on the trunk sewer upstream in the Summerston area of Glasgow. The CSO, which took around six months to complete, will help protect the homes in the Shafton Road area from flooding during prolonged storm conditions by preventing the water levels in the sewer from reaching flood levels.


Previously, floodwater in storm conditions or heavy rainfall flowed into Shafton Road when a nearby sewer flooded the network at Strathblane Gardens and Anniesland Business Park. The utility provider has said the trunk sewer serves a "significant area" and levels in the sewer can be affected by rainfall. The investment in a new CSO has substantially reduced the risk of flooding, it added.

Mark Maclaren, Scottish Water's Regional Communities Team Manager, commented: "Scottish Water is committed to doing everything we can to help communities and customers by playing our part in tackling flooding and dealing with the impact of heavy rainfall.

"Some properties in the Shafton Road area have suffered from recurring flooding over a number of years and we fully appreciate the inconvenience this can cause. We know that affected customers will welcome completion of our investment in these improvements to our network."

The work has been carried out for Scottish Water by contractors George Leslie Ltd.

(JP/CD)