The £550,000 project, which is expected to start on about 29 June and is likely to be completed in about 10 weeks, is designed to reduce the risk of flooding which has affected properties in the Lanfine Road area.

The properties have been affected by internal flooding when a waste water pipe can back-up and surcharge waste water during heavy rainfall.

The project will allow Scottish Water to remove five properties from our register of properties at risk of internal flooding.

Contractors Carillion, working for Scottish Water Solutions, will re-grade a 60 metre stretch of pipe to a more appropriate gradient and upsize the sewer to reduce the risk of it backing-up and surcharging.

The project is part of Scottish Water's ongoing commitment to improving our service to customers and our long-term programme of improving the waste water network.

Mr Mark Templeton, Scottish Water's acting regional manager, said: "Scottish Water is very pleased to be starting this important project in Lanfine Road.

"We take our responsibilities to deal with flooding issues very seriously and fully understand the disruption and inconvenience that flooding can cause.

"Scottish Water is committed to providing a first-class service to our customers 24 hours a day, seven days a week and to ensuring that issues such as this sort of flooding are tackled so that people can enjoy a cleaner, fresher environment."

Mr Nick Haley, the project manager, said: "We will make every effort to complete this project as quickly and efficiently as possible and to minimise any disruption to affected customers.

"Lanfine Road between numbers 18 and 33 will be temporarily closed in 20 metre sections during the project.

"We will work on a 20 metre stretch of pipe at a time on a rolling basis so this will mean that the properties close to that work will be affected for a very short period.

"There will be restricted access to the driveways of properties on both sides of the street for a short period throughout the project.

"We will inform all affected customers and we will make every effort to accommodate any affected residents who have special needs.

"In order to minimise any inconvenience we will also restrict our work to normal working hours and on weekdays only.

"We appreciate our customers' understanding and co-operation while this important work is carried out and we are confident that they will appreciate that any short-term inconvenience will be far out-weighed by the long-term benefits of this investment."

Mrs Dawn McDermott, Scottish Water's regional community manager, and the project team have liaised with Renfrewshire Council, local councilors and residents about the project and will continue to do so.

In the current 2006-10 investment period Scottish Water has so far invested more than £30m in internal sewer flooding and removed a total of 283 properties from the register of properties at risk of internal flooding.