WORK to improve the way sewage is treated in Cutnall Green, which has seen an investment of more than half a million pounds, is nearing completion.

The village has received £600,000 worth of improvement work on the sewerage system, with three kilometres of new sewers laid across fields and sections of the A442, as well as a new pumping station.

The work by Severn Trent Water, started in April of this year, and is on schedule to reach completion by December, with all the new pipes now in the ground. Everything will be connected together later in November, with the last details coming together the following month.

Severn Trent Water programme engineer, Dave Kiernan, said: “This is great news for the people of Cutnall Green. The sewage treatment works has been serving the community for many years, but it’s now in need of work. To make sure the quality of water in our streams and rivers get even better, we need to continually improve and upgrade our sewers and sewage treatment works. This £600,000 investment will see Cutnall Green sewage works becoming a sewage pumping station, with waste water being treated at Droitwich, a larger high-tech site nearby. This will better protect the environment and help to prevent pollution in local rivers and streams.”

The work has impacted on the village, particularly affecting the area around Cutnall Green First School, and the company has worked with teachers, parents, and pupils to keep them informed, as well as giving them advice on how to stay safe around the building sites.

Cutnall Green First School headteacher, Katherine Atkinson said: “Severn Trent came and did a very informative assembly with a follow up competition which engaged and motivated the children”

Mr Kiernan added: “Our staff have been into school to do an assembly to explain to the children what we are doing and why. And then we set them a challenge – to design a new safety sign to be used on the fences around the work. The children were amazing and came up with some fantastic designs. “We’d like to thank the local community for their patience while we do this essential work – we won’t be here for much longer, but the benefits of the new and improved sewerage system will be here for generations to come.”