"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article , Sacha
writes:
|
| I wonder if there are any regulations pro or con people building water
| reservoirs for their own use? If we are going to get dryer weather and
| longer hot spells, that may become desirable with new build houses, for
| example. I'm remembering that my aunt and uncle in Jersey have a
reservoir
| under their lawn because they're not on mains water. Normally, it's
kept
| filled up by rainwater, I think but if need be, they can buy water by
the
| tanker load. However, the dim recesses of memory tell me that water
boards
| were not keen on private reservoirs, possibly because they would reduce
| their own revenue.

Oh, yes, there are regulations - and laws and bylaws and rules and
guidelines
and misinformation and ignorance and more regulations ....

The executive summary is that you are certainly allowed to do that, but
may well be told that you aren't, and may have to take the water company
to court to prove that you are. But God alone knows exactly which of the
zillion aforesaid hindrances will force you to jump through hoops that
make no sense at all.

Years ago we were not on the mains sewer, and we had a cesspit, when the
water board decided to get us all onto the main sewer I, rather stupidly in
retrospect, had the cesspit filled in, it used to collect large quantities
of water from the ground and was nearly always full.

Had I not been so stupid I would now have had a fairly large reservoir!(:-(

Alan