{"id":473888,"date":"2026-03-13T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473888\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:33:20","slug":"united-utilities-storage-tank-work-begins-near-barrow-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473888\/","title":{"rendered":"United Utilities storage tank work begins near Barrow pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another storage tank is being built to help &#8220;improve water quality&#8221;, a utility company has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The underground tank is part of UU&#8217;s \u00a3100m scheme to reduce the number of times storm overflows discharge sewage into the Walney Channel, Irish Sea, and Morecambe Bay during heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Construction is set to be completed in 2028, with plans under way for water quality schemes at nine locations elsewhere in the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another storage tank is being built to help &#8220;improve water quality&#8221;, a utility company has said. Work began&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-473888","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}