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Raw sewage. and causes.
James wrote in message During the floods of last week, Thames water sewage plants couldn't cope...and the backlog of untreated sewage filled the pipes, until it burst up and out of the drains... right into our back garden. The result was 3 days of 6in deep sewage filled water covering a large expanse of lawn and patio. Luckily none got in the house, but it is the garden that I am concerned about. After 3 days, the residue of sewage remained (the water soaked away), and 1 week later I am stil waiting for the "professional" clean-up of this toxic stuff. Question: Will the sewage adversely affect the lawn, or the Apple tree (eaters), or the large clematis that it soaked? If this is not a bad thing... will the "clean-up" with powerful detergents do more harm than good? Just to throw a spanner in the works take a look at............ http://www.sas.org.uk/campaign/health.asp I'm interested as I suspect we don't live far away from each other. Luckily the foods only got to within 300yds from our house but it was coming up through the road drains in the next street. I said over a year ago that the Flood Relief Channel at Maidenhead would cause us some trouble as we would get the lot, but the Councillors I spoke to said that was not true, it would all be held back there. Wonder what they are saying now as the water table was nowhere near as high as two years ago! Probably a good excuse to enable them to build the next one from just downstream of Staines Railway Bridge and ending in Chertsey Weir without too much local dissent.Trouble is that is designed to use Thorpe Park as a holding lake but TP overflowed too this year! Then it will flow into the Abbey River which will be enlarged, and eventually after passing through Chertsey it flows back into the Thames. I bet this "secret" completed plan gets aired shortly in public. :-) Keep an eye out James. -- Bob www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in Runnymede fighting for it's existence. |
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Raw sewage. and causes.
"Sue & Bob Hobden" wrote in message
... James wrote in message During the floods of last week, Thames water sewage plants couldn't cope...and the backlog of untreated sewage filled the pipes, until it burst up and out of the drains... right into our back garden. snip I'm interested as I suspect we don't live far away from each other. Luckily the foods only got to within 300yds from our house but it was coming up through the road drains in the next street. We're on the Bucks/Oxon border. So I guess by the Thorpe Park/Chertsey stuff we are a far way apart. It seems to be a common problem... and I wonder if part of the cause may also be that in-fill building of houses is putting extra pressure on existing sewer drains, and there are no upgrades occurring to prevent this. So additional housing is not only causing problems by building on Flood plains... it is problematic no matter where the development takes place......especially if there is insufficient planning/thought. |
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