en.Wedoany.com Reported - Yorkshire Water is advancing a £53 million sewage monitoring project, planning to deploy over 92,000 sewage monitoring alarms and monitoring devices by 2030 to reduce pollution and prevent sewage overflows. The company stated that this sewage monitoring investment is already showing results in reducing pollution risks and enhancing network resilience.
Lee Pinder, Regional Operations Manager at Yorkshire Water, explained: "We have already installed thousands of sewage alarms across the region and plan to install over 92,000 more, bringing the total number of monitors to 130,000 by the end of 2030." He also stated: "This project is part of our overall commitment to minimizing pollution, protecting the environment, and preventing sewage back-ups, specifically by installing sewage alarms in high-risk flood areas. A sewage alarm is a monitoring device that signals us when water levels rise. Water levels can rise for many reasons, for example, a blockage in the sewer pipe could cause sewage to back up into customers' homes and gardens."
When a sewage monitoring device triggers an alarm, the central control room is notified, and the team can quickly dispatch personnel to investigate the cause of the rising water level and resolve the issue before the situation worsens.
The project centers on the Smart Risk and Insight System's sewer network telemetry deployment, driving the company's shift from reactive to predictive operations. All sewage monitoring sensor data is analyzed by StormHarvester's artificial intelligence system, which combines sewage alarm data with factors such as rainfall, river levels, and groundwater levels. Machine learning algorithms alert the control room when anomalies are detected, enabling the operations team to identify problems earlier and reduce sewage overflows and stormwater back-ups.
The Smart Risk and Insight System is a key step in building a "digital twin" of the sewer network, supporting the operations team in making proactive decisions through improved alarm systems, higher data quality, and visualization tools. Yorkshire Water is also collaborating with Samotics on a "Predictive Protection" initiative, using Electrical Signature Analysis technology to continuously monitor critical assets, which has already prevented 35 pollution incidents and reduced on-site emergency visits by 15%.
Since its rollout in June 2025, Yorkshire Water and its partner Detectronic have installed over 8,500 sewage level monitors and 8,000 customer sewage alarms, with the sewage monitoring project planning to install 92,000 devices over the next five years. Lee Pinder added: "We know that reducing pollution and preventing sewage back-ups is vitally important to our customers and communities. This investment marks a significant shift in how we manage our network—moving from reacting to problems after they occur to preventing them before they happen. The early signs are encouraging, and we will maintain this momentum to further roll out this technology."
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