A £5 million pound dry reservoir is being planned by the Council in Bathampton to prevent flooding in the City Centre.
The Council say that the risk of flooding in the area between the train station and the new Riverside development meant that a lot of the land was underused.
Creating the reservoir would allow for an upstream point where the excess water could be soaked up before it reached anywhere near the City Centre.
The land saved from flooding could then be used for additional business areas and more housing for Bath.
The Environment Agency and Bath and North East Somerset Council are working together to make the scheme work.
John Betty, the strategic director for major projects at the Council told the BBC: ‘Clearly there are flood risks within Bath.“
“The idea is to have flood mitigation – a basin at Bathampton Meadows.
“There is some land there we could remodel and effectively the flooding coming from Wiltshire would be help in the basin at that location.“
