Severn Trent bosses have pledged £214 million of funding during the next five years to make improvements to Shropshire's waterways.at Coalbrookdale Community Centre on Friday, Severn Trent representatives revealed the water company's plans to improve river quality, storm overflow and abstraction licence management.
The company revealed during their presentation at the meeting that there will be £214 million of investment across 200 improvements in the county"mostly focused on river quality, storm overflows and abstraction licence management", alongside £82 million of investment to"complete detailed options appraisal for the three new inland bathing water in Shropshire to improve water quality towards bathing quality".
"As a business we're absolutely laser focused on that we need to get this done or the majority done before the weather changes in the winter because this is when we get the major changes on the overflows.