MULTI-MILLION pound sewage treatment schemes are being drawn up for four picturesque fishing and holiday villages on the North Yorkshire coast.

Yorkshire Water says that although it does not have to complete the work at Robin Hood's Bay, Staithes, Runswick Bay and Sandsend until the end of 2005, as part of its Coastcare campaign to improve the bathing water for holidaymakers on the coast, it aims to have it completed by December 2000.

Derek Rowell, Scarborough Council's technical services director said the projects for Staithes, Runswick Bay, and Robin Hood's Bay will have to have planning approval from the North York Moors National Park, and from the county council for the Sandsend scheme.

He said Yorkshire Water has drawn up plans for dealing with the waste water flow from the villages by intercepting existing gravity sewers.

At Robin Hood's Bay the scheme, which will also serve nearby Fylingthorpe, will include the building of a pumping station at The Quarter Deck in the old part of the village. A new pipeline will be laid along the route of the old Scarborough to Whitby railway to Broomfield Farm, Whitby, where the main treatment works for the area is to be built.

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