Scottish Water is planning a major upgrade of it's water mains network in Cumbernauld.

The company will invest in major improvements to part of the local water mains network to provide customers with additional resilience and security of supply.

Engineers are working to finalise the planned scheme and the project is expected to start this autumn and be completed in spring 2018.

John Rae, Scottish Water's water operations general manager, said: "We have previously taken a number of steps in Cumbernauld to reduce the impact of burst water mains and minimise disruption to customers, such as the installation of a burst control valve and backfeeds, and this enabled us to substantially limit the number of properties whose supplies were disrupted following the burst in May.

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"However, we aim to further reduce the risk of disruption and we said after the incident in May that we would investigate further investment to improve our infrastructure.

"We can now confirm that we will make that investment in the local network and we are sure customers in the area will welcome this news. We look forward to starting the project soon and further details will be confirmed in the coming weeks."

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