Lying in the heart of south Wales, the county of Bridgend has a population of almost 140,000 people. It is situated on the River Ogmore and is home to the grade-II listed Bryngarw Country Park and Kenfig Nature Reserve.
As a company, Welsh Water has 5 wastewater treatment works located across Bridgend, as well as 1,165km of sewers and 894km water pipes to serve this county.
Over the next five years, our investment programme for Bridgend will be focussed on protecting and improving the environment by aiming our efforts to reduce the impact of our storm overflows in the area, as well as improving resilience in our drinking water network.
We’re currently investing £2.5 million to upgrade Pen y Bont Wastewater Treatment Works. As part of our essential work, we are refurbishing an existing primary tank at the works to provide extra resilience at the works, and this work is due to be completed in summer 2025. Following this, we are planning to invest a further £3 million to increase our storm storage at the site and this will help us to further protect and help to improve the local watercourse.
Every five years we prepare a regulatory business plan which is submitted to Ofwat as part of the Price Review process. The plans are based on customer views and cover our performance commitments, efficiency, investments, and bills. Below is an example of the work carried out in your area during the previous investment period 2020-2025.
We recently invested £6.1 million to upgrade the drinking water network in Maesteg, Garw Valley, and Pencoed areas of Bridgend. The project involved cleaning or replacing 35.5km of water pipes, equivalent to the length of 400 football pitches. This work was completed at the end of 2021.