A main road near the centre of Keynsham is to be closed completely for almost three months this summer, to allow a new sewer to be installed. A 170-metre stretch of the B3116 Wellsway near Keynsham Cricket Club will be closed from the last week of July for 12 weeks.
Motorists driving through Keynsham will be diverted on the A39 and A4, but residents in Chandag Road and surrounding streets are bracing themselves for the inevitable rat-running drivers trying to avoid the road closure. Wessex Water said the work will begin on July 24, and see a new gravity relief sewer installed along the 170-metre stretch of the Wellsway, to connect two separate systems to try to reduce incidents where the sewers flood nearby streets and homes.
The work will cost half a million pounds, and is part of a much bigger project to expand the capacity of Keynsham’s sewage system, as the town expands. Along with the £500,000 to install the new sewer on the Wellsway, a total of £16.5 million is being spent by Wessex Water on the water recycling centre off Broadmead Lane, just north of the railway line, close to the town centre.
