Scottish Water is almost trebling its investment in reducing internal sewer flooding across Scotland and Dunfermline and its surrounding areas are set to benefit from the works.

In the past five years around £40m has been put into improvements and that figure will go up to £115m between now and 2021, allowing key areas such as Park Road in Rosyth to be looked at and addressed.

A Scottish Water spokesperson said, “In Dunfermline we are in the early stages of flooding investigation work in the Park Road area. In conjunction with Fife Council we are looking at the flooding issues that affect eight properties (a mixture of people’s homes, public buildings and businesses) in the area, and we are also investigating pollution incidents from a culverted watercourse which discharges into the Brankholm Burn.

“Flooding is a complex issue, frequently requiring the collaboration of various agencies and stakeholders to establish a clear understanding of flood risk and to identify and agree an effective course of action. In this instance there are various parties that need to be involved – Scottish Water, Fife Council, Transport Scotland, SEPA and private land owners.” Dunfermline will also be one of the top priority areas in Fife set to take part in a key study into flooding which looks to find cost-effective solutions and reduce flood risk.

“Dunfermline has been identified by the Scottish Advisory and Implementation Forum for Flooding (SAIFF) as one of two priority areas in the Fife Council area for an Integrated Catchment Study (ICS),” said the spokesperson. “This study – which is set to start in the summer of 2015 – will be led by Scottish Water and undertaken in collaboration with Fife Council and SEPA.” Fife Council’s controversial Flood Prevention Scheme is seven years behind schedule at a cost of £27.6million – and set to rise to a final total of £30million on completion – despite original estimates of £3.75million when the disastrous project was first announced in 2002.