Maghera-based BSG Civil Engineering has been appointed to carry out the Belleek Wastewater Treatment Works, a nature-based replacement for the town’s existing facility, for clients NI Water and Uisce Éireann. Construction is planned to begin this autumn, with completion expected by spring 2028.

Initial activity covers setting up a site compound, followed by construction of the nature-based treatment system. When the new works are complete, flows will be diverted to them and the old facility will be demolished.

The wider Belleek improvements also need a new, larger-diameter pumping main to carry wastewater flows from Carlton Wastewater Pumping Station, beside Carlton Cottages, to the new treatment works.

Founded in 1982, BSG specialises in water and wastewater infrastructure, planning, designing, delivering, monitoring and maintaining treatment works, drainage systems, service reservoirs and pumping stations, alongside flood alleviation and harbour and marine engineering. The company has delivered more than 500 projects across the island of Ireland and works with more than 700 subcontractors and suppliers each year.

BSG lists nature-based solutions and integrated wetlands among its stormwater capabilities, alongside sewerage networks, shafts and tunnels, and wastewater pumping stations.

BSG describes itself as a multi-award-winning tier 1 civil engineering contractor based in Northern Ireland, and has completed a newly built head office in Maghera that it calls a centre for collaboration and innovation.

The Belleek scheme is part of a wider programme of treatment works upgrades that also covers Garrison, Ballybay and Blacklion, with work at Garrison already progressing and Belleek the second sustainable treatment upgrade.

The structural driver is the need for additional treatment capacity to support new homes and economic growth in the Belleek area, delivered through a more sustainable, nature-based system.

For the sector, the appointment gives a Maghera contractor with more than 40 years in the water sector a nature-based treatment works and a pumping main package to deliver through to spring 2028, strengthening its position in sustainable wastewater engineering.

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