{"id":578756,"date":"2026-05-11T21:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578756\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T21:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:23:21","slug":"southern-water-reveals-42m-works-overhaul-plan-for-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578756\/","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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":555301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-578756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578756","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=578756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}