Shropshire Star

Ludlow water treatment works to be completed next month while work continues at Monkmoor

Major work as part of a £78 million investment to improve water quality in Shropshire is expected to be completed next month.

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Severn Trent Water has said its works to improve bathing-quality water from Knighton to Ludlow along the Teme are on-track to be completed by March. 

The water company's multi-million pound investment as part of its 'Green Recovery' project has seen storage capacity increased and a number of upgrades to parts of its network including the installation of larger pipes to reduce the impact of storm overflows. 

Ludlow's treatment plant has also become one of the first in the UK to see new technology 'ozone' installed.

Severn Trent Water has trialled an ozone disinfectant - oxygen gas with three atoms instead of two - which the water company said works by "cleaning waste water to the highest possible standard, before being returned to the river in its most natural state".