Van Oord has reached a major milestone on a £7 million marine pipe replacement project in Scarborough.

The engineering contractor is carrying out the scheme for Yorkshire Water to replace 2.5km of sea outfall pipe at Wheatcroft.

The company has now installed a new steel pipe in an excavated trench under the sea bed. Onshore connection of the new pipe was completed on 13 July and the reinstatement of the shoreline is expected to take until the end of July.

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Yorkshire Water Project Manager, Mark Doherty said: "We're delighted to announce that our Van Oord colleagues have successfully installed the new outfall pipe. Van Oord were chosen because of their extensive expertise and experience in this kind of work and the project team overcame a period of very bad weather to keep the project on target.

"Throughout the project the whole team have shown great ingenuity and have displayed a great deal of collaboration to overcome the challenges it has presented."

(LM/MH)