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A TOWN centre flood alleviation scheme in has won a prestigious civil engineering award at the 30th Institution of Civil Engineers Robert Stephenson Awards. The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has announced that Chester-le-Street Flood Alleviation Scheme won the medium category Robert Stephenson Award, which is for projects of a value between £1 and £5 million. The annual ceremony sponsored by CDM Recruitment took place online on Friday, April 23, and saw ten shortlisted projects battle it out for the small, medium and large Robert Stephenson Award. To mark 30 years of the awards a special anniversary award was also presented. Chester-le-Street has a long history of flooding and in June 2012, more than 100 homes and businesses at the northern end of the town were affected by floodwaters.