The works is to be entrusted to a specialist firm from Aberdeen.
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A £2 MILLION scheme of sewage and drainage improvements to Stonehaven's Carron Valley, was given the go-ahead this week by Grampian Region's planning, property and development committee.
Members agreed that the £535,000 flood relief scheme for the town, and £1.6 million-worth of sea outfall improvements, were necessary to overcome long-standing drainage problems, and were "an essential pre-requisite for any level of continued growth in Stonehaven,"
The large scheme involves tackling the flooding problem stemming from the River Carron; laying nearly a mile of new sewers in several of the town's streets; and building a new sewage/outfall to carry waste 700 metres out to sea from the harbour wall.

50 YEARS AGO
Friday October 3 1958

THE fight by Newtonhill Amenities and Ratepayers' Association for the re-opening of their local railway station and the introduction of a diesel rail service between the village and Aberdeen is to go on.
This was decided at a mass meeting at Newtonhill last Thursday night, when villagers pledged their support to the committee's cause, and indicated that they would uphold any future action in the matter.
The meeting was called by committee members following the rejection of their appeal for a service by British Railways. They wished to have the full backing of the village before proceeding further.
Newtonhill has been without a train service since June 1956, when the station was closed for economic reasons. Since then villagers have had to make a fifteen-minute walk to the main road for a bus.

100 YEARS AGO
Thursday October 1 1908

ON Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, a fisherman named James Christie, 23 years of age, fell from the window of his parents' house on the third storey of No. 186 High Street.
In his descent he turned a somersault and broke the windows of the two storeys underneath. Christie was carried up to the house and Dr W. E. Taylor called, who found him suffering from concussion of the brain.
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SHORTLY after seven o'clock on Tuesday night, fire broke out at the salmon fishers' head at Skatie Shore, near Stonehaven.
The building and its contents were completely destroyed, and the damage is estimated at between £500 and £700. When the outbreak was discovered the flames had obtained a firm hold of the shed, and a strong breeze blowing it was soon completely destroyed.