Water, water everywhere- especially Barry x Upland

[Nigello]

There’s a huge puddle - more of a pond - at the corner of Barry and Upland, likely caused by blocked drains. I’ll report it but it’ll likely take ages to fix.

 

[Super Sleuth]

Why not get your wellies on and go unblock the drains? Probably leaves and plastic bottles stuck in the street drain grids. It's not rocket science!?

[Spartacus]

  Super Sleuth said:

Why not get your wellies on and go unblock the drains? Probably leaves and plastic bottles stuck in the street drain grids. It's not rocket science!?

 

The expression "why have a dog and bark yourself" comes to mind. We all pay council tax so that Southwark provide services like leaf clearing and street sweeping. Whilst it's easy to do it ourselves, if it's not reported to the council they won't know there's a problem hot spot and won't assign resources to it in the future.

[Nigello]

I did do just that at a grid that was a few feet up from this ponding, to help it from getting worse, even sans wellies!

What’s your excuse, Super Slack?

[Super Sleuth]

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  Super Sleuth said:

Why not get your wellies on and go unblock the drains? Probably leaves and plastic bottles stuck in the street drain grids. It's not rocket science!?

 

The expression "why have a dog and bark yourself" comes to mind. We all pay council tax so that Southwark provide services like leaf clearing and street sweeping. Whilst it's easy to do it ourselves, if it's not reported to the council they won't know there's a problem hot spot and won't assign resources to it in the future.

 

Not very public spirited of you Spartacus! We could all ignore neighbourhood issues and leave them for the council to deal with, or with a simple act clear the leaves and prevent a bigger community problem.

[Super Sleuth]

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I did do just that at a grid that was a few feet up from this ponding, to help it from getting worse, even sans wellies!

What’s your excuse, Super Slack?

 

Good work Nigello!

Would be a 30 minute walk each way for me. But you won't find any blocked street drains on my patch!

[Spartacus]

  Super Sleuth said:

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  Super Sleuth said:

Why not get your wellies on and go unblock the drains? Probably leaves and plastic bottles stuck in the street drain grids. It's not rocket science!?

 

The expression "why have a dog and bark yourself" comes to mind. We all pay council tax so that Southwark provide services like leaf clearing and street sweeping. Whilst it's easy to do it ourselves, if it's not reported to the council they won't know there's a problem hot spot and won't assign resources to it in the future.

 

Not very public spirited of you Spartacus! We could all ignore neighbourhood issues and leave them for the council to deal with, or with a simple act clear the leaves and prevent a bigger community problem.

 

Super Sleuth you seem to be missing the point, unless it's on the councils radar through reporting, it won't be registered as a problem and will occur again. By reporting it the council will prioritise it for leaf cleaning and litter removal going forward.

It's akin to saying, crime is uncontrolled but not reporting crime to the police. By failing to report the police aren't aware a crime has occurred or where to deploy resources.

Reporting the problem is they key act that needs to occur and if someone wants to also clear the drain then tjats good of them.....

[first mate]

Perhaps not a good idea of public to be messing around clearing public drains? Rats are a thing and Weil's is dangerous. If this is a problem area both Council and water authority should be alerted and whichever most relevant sort it.