Published: Friday, 3rd July, 2009 12:00pm

Sewage Company Says 'Sorry' To Troon

by Roisin McGroarty

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A FURTHER apology has been given for a blockage which caused raw sewage to flood down a residential street in Troon.

Scottish Water made their second apology on behalf of the triple deluge which flooded North Shore Road over a month ago.

In May residents suffered from the three separate occasions of the waste water being spilled out onto the road and contamination being walked into their homes.

Many houses were also left without clean water for sometime.

Now Scottish Water have written to Central Ayrshire MP Brian Donohoe about their failure to repair the fault immediately.

The company has since discovered that the flooding was a result of the level of water in the weir within the pumping station storm rising just as some repair work was being carried out to the emergency overflow system.

They have given assurances that they have now significantly reduced the weir levels, and that the pumping station itself is now fully back in action.

A spokesman for Scottish Power added: 'The pumping station is working correctly. If the station could not cope with the volume of sewage, the storm and emergency overflow would kick in and protect the local area from flooding.'

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