.. first with the building site, and second; with the churned up grassy areas as a result of diggers moving around. What was once a really great park to spend a day in is now a building site. And try running without breaking your ankle... near impossible.

work to stop sewage from all the houses overflowing into the river which runs through the park.

If you go to the top of endcliffe park it looks like the overflow from sewage collected from whitely woods goes straight into the porter brook. They spent ages digging up by the roundabout and seemed to lay a pipe that leads right to the porter brook.

I hope they are just channeling rain water into the porter brook, although you'd think it could get there by itself...

Look here (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&postid=275319.)

This work is a part of a programme of sewerage improvements which are going on city wide to stop problems with river contamination at times of heavy rain. In many sheffield parks/woods/fields in lowish areas they have dug a massive hole and installed a collosal holding tank, which will take surges of water, to release slowly as things get back to normal. Also they have been installing pipes to divert water courses to improve the quality of local rivers and streams.

Only a few years ago there were massive flooding at times of heavy rain at the bottom of penistone road, and heeley bottom and abbeydale road on a regular basis, this problem goes back over a century, and the organ console in the Heeley Electric Palace cinema was built in a large tank so it didn't get wet in the regular floods.

At these times of high water and flood, our local rivers/streams [and often people's cellars] used to get raw sewage overflowing into them because the drains and sewerage system was totally overwhelmed, this was unhygenic, unsightly and a danger to wildlife.

Hopefully this kind of thing wil be a thing of the past and soon all the parks wil be grassed again and less waterlogged.

Thanks cgksheff, your links have been useful thanky you :)

Hi,
does anyone know what the River Porter has had done to it to prevent flooding?

You might be interested to know, although it wasn't affected by the works, as a goodwill gesture, Yorkshire Water along with some volunteers have restored the big stepping stones by the cafe, that were put there in the 19th century, and some of which had fallen down the weir.:thumbsup:

Originally posted by knowtheworld
Hi,
does anyone know what the River Porter has had done to it to prevent flooding? Just follow cgksheff's link above.