Cozzer
Established Member
Today's epistle is a sort-of follow up to my recent post "****ed Off".
It doesn't directly concern any of the earlier mentioned events, but is a continuation of sorts, dealing with today's "attitudes".
On Friday, we had a sewer burst just along the road from us. We've seen it before, and as my wife delicately describes it, it's like a "fountain of dung". (There's no poetry in the woman). Indeed, it all spits out of the ground, a good two foot high at times. It's on some waste ground, falling between house X and house Y, shall we say.
Like a good citizen - and actually forgetting the protocol last time - I reported it to Severn Trent.
"Not us, mate. We supply water. You want Yorkshire Water. They look after waste...."
Ah yes. How could I have forgotten. I rang them last time...never again. I'll report it online.....
What exactly is the problem? Where is it? Postcode? Have you reported this before? Can you provide a photo? Can you describe the manhole? You get the picture.
In case you're thinking the manhole description request was a joke, think again. They helpfully show photo's of different ones to assist you....small round, large round, small rectangle...even a triangular job. Seven, from memory.
Do they really think I'm going to plough ankle-deep through assorted richards and second-user toilet roll to find out what kind of manhole is overflowing?!
Well, yes. Yes, they do...
That was Saturday. I checked on their site this morning, entering the start of our local postcode. "No problems reported".
Not the clearest of photo's, but you'll see that the puddle now extends to about 20 yards. Just beyond the tree line, the ground steeply slips away to the main Sheffield to St.Pancras line, so there's every chance of the sewage gulping its way down to the tracks, maybe taking some landslip with it. Bon Voyage....
Nobody's turned up yet. Mind you, the last time this happened, it took 4 days before any action was taken, and the remedial action of raking and covering the area with a load of dead leaves didn't apparently work.
We've also had some fly-tippers visit our local nature park over the weekend. It's called a nature park to save the council actually doing anything as far as I can see. Anyway, I contacted the Town Council about it this morning...
"The park itself is our concern, but not the lane leading to it. You need to report it to the District Council...."
Another bloody website form.
Who designs these?!
Can you describe the location with "What3words".
No. No, I bloody can't! I've given you the exact location.
Can you describe exactly what's been dumped (without going too near it as it might be dangerous!)
Did you actually witness the event?
And so on....
Is it all designed so that you don't "bother" anybody?!
It doesn't directly concern any of the earlier mentioned events, but is a continuation of sorts, dealing with today's "attitudes".
On Friday, we had a sewer burst just along the road from us. We've seen it before, and as my wife delicately describes it, it's like a "fountain of dung". (There's no poetry in the woman). Indeed, it all spits out of the ground, a good two foot high at times. It's on some waste ground, falling between house X and house Y, shall we say.
Like a good citizen - and actually forgetting the protocol last time - I reported it to Severn Trent.
"Not us, mate. We supply water. You want Yorkshire Water. They look after waste...."
Ah yes. How could I have forgotten. I rang them last time...never again. I'll report it online.....
What exactly is the problem? Where is it? Postcode? Have you reported this before? Can you provide a photo? Can you describe the manhole? You get the picture.
In case you're thinking the manhole description request was a joke, think again. They helpfully show photo's of different ones to assist you....small round, large round, small rectangle...even a triangular job. Seven, from memory.
Do they really think I'm going to plough ankle-deep through assorted richards and second-user toilet roll to find out what kind of manhole is overflowing?!
Well, yes. Yes, they do...
That was Saturday. I checked on their site this morning, entering the start of our local postcode. "No problems reported".
Not the clearest of photo's, but you'll see that the puddle now extends to about 20 yards. Just beyond the tree line, the ground steeply slips away to the main Sheffield to St.Pancras line, so there's every chance of the sewage gulping its way down to the tracks, maybe taking some landslip with it. Bon Voyage....
Nobody's turned up yet. Mind you, the last time this happened, it took 4 days before any action was taken, and the remedial action of raking and covering the area with a load of dead leaves didn't apparently work.
We've also had some fly-tippers visit our local nature park over the weekend. It's called a nature park to save the council actually doing anything as far as I can see. Anyway, I contacted the Town Council about it this morning...
"The park itself is our concern, but not the lane leading to it. You need to report it to the District Council...."
Another bloody website form.
Who designs these?!
Can you describe the location with "What3words".
No. No, I bloody can't! I've given you the exact location.
Can you describe exactly what's been dumped (without going too near it as it might be dangerous!)
Did you actually witness the event?
And so on....
Is it all designed so that you don't "bother" anybody?!
