Funds available for major water infrastructure schemes

There is not enough money available to give many major infrastructure projects, Ni Water has said.

It says that the severity of waste water and drainage development will increase as a result.

The company has planned to determine the implications of postponing the Living with Water Plan (LWP) for the £ 1.9BN program, Belfast next month.

Decision means that the work to upgrade sewage tasks in Cydenham, Whitehouse and Qinnagar cannot proceed, and the work planned in Glenmachan, Greenisland, Caricafergus and sea outfalls will not begin.

Ni Water says that it will start a program of maintenance in this spring, to ensure that the existing feature is as effectively operated as possible “.

Last year, former infrastructure minister John O’Dov said estimated 50% increase The price of the plan was not cheap.

When LWP was published in 2015, it set three objectives:

• To protect from floods
• Increase environment
• Provide the ability to allow further development like house building

Wastewater lack of infrastructure is a long concern for developers who said that it is stopping economic growth in the city.

There was drainage in Belfast Originally designed by Victorian engineers as a joint systemBoth sewage and storm water flow through the same pipe.

It was due to the size of the city, sitting on the bottom of the hills at the close level of the near-sea.

In a statement, NI Water said that at the end of 2024, the Infrastructure Department (DFI) reviewed the LWWP and concluded that the original 12-year-old scale was “no longer received”.

It states that delivery cannot be taken through a formal program, but instead individual partners, such as ni water, will have to be done on the speed “scales and available speeds”.

He said, “The Belfast Plan projects included within the living with water … are the major infrastructure upgrades, which require significant and continuous investment over the years that are not currently available for water,” said this.

“Therefore, the projects have been stopped indefinitely.”