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06
Jan 2023
Ripon sewage leak: tree felled as repair work set to last two weeks
Work to repair a leaking sewer pipe on the River Ure at Sharow, near Ripon, looks set to last another fortnight.
Several vehicles and staff have been working round the clock for more than a week to fix the pipe at the pumping station on Sharow Lane.
Yorkshire Water said on Wednesday the leak had caused “short term” discharge into the Ure on December 30.
Yesterday a large tree was felled at the site where work is taking place.
In an update today. a Yorkshire Water spokesman said:
Vehicles are still at the scene of the incident.
The spokesman said the tree had to be felled because nearby repair work was taking place five metres below the surface and "there were concerns the dig could cause the tree to fall onto the site where people were working".
He added there had been no further discharge since the pipe was isolated on December 30 and Yorkshire Water had not received any reports of fish deaths.
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One Sharow villager, who asked not to be named, said the number of vehicles working at the site over several days suggested "the scale and severity of what's happened must be significant".
Yorkshire Water, however, has said it "believes there was a low impact on the environment due to the speed at which the pipe was isolated", adding:
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