New sewage works would be better for River Cam

Anglian Water says there will be no storm spills from the new plant.

The company wants to move its current facility to land north of the A14 near Cambridge known as Honey Hill.

Questions have been raised by examiners over the lack of modelling of combined sewer overflows.

Concerns were voiced about how certain the benefits were without this information.

Anglian Water representatives said they would come back with more information on that point.

Mona Komen, Anglian Water:

"Existing modelling shows that without additional storage there are storm spills once every 10 years.

"For the improved works with improved storage it is less than that, in the modelled period of 10 years there are no storm spills.

"That is a reduced number of incidents according to the modelling of storm spills to the existing facility, which can only be a benefit to the River Cam."

The new sewage works are proposed to be built on land between Fen Ditton and Horningsea.

If the Development Consent Order (DCO) application to build the new facility is approved, it will replace the existing Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant in the north of the city.

The relocation project has come forward to free up the land the existing sewage works sits on to be redeveloped into around 8,000 homes as part of the North East Cambridge Development.