Waterlogged Area

koalamummy

I am in Scotland so don't have a water meter but our water is definitely connected to the mains on the opposite side of the building as part of the feed into our house is visible, so I would really need to put some effort in to convince them that there really could be a burst pipe there. Still, I can but try!

averagemummy

Ha! OK then I would maybe start with the council? Do they have plans of the area before it was built on - was the ground surveyed and can you access copies? I don't know much more on that side of things I'm afraid.

In out town there is a river running through one end of town and although there is an elevated road running along the edge the playing fields next to the river are often water logged and flooded

Elsewhere

We had an area in our garden which was naturally waterlogged even in the driest weather - we dug a big hole and turned it into a wildlife pond.

lostinrates

Well, we had problems with something i believed to be a burst pipe and the warer company said was a spring. It WAS a burst pipe. My argument was proven correct by testing the water for additives they put in tap water. Try and get the water company to test it first, so ypu know whether its 'water' or 'tap water' as finding out which it is rules out all the possibilities relating to the other type.

koalamummy

Elsewhere wrote: »

We had an area in our garden which was naturally waterlogged even in the driest weather - we dug a big hole and turned it into a wildlife pond.

I would love to have a pond but unfortunately I don't think it woul be practical for this location. It is at the side of our house overlapping between the front and back gardens which would make it difficult to keep safe in a street with quite a few small children. Maybe when they are all a bit older though

koalamummy

I will be contacting them on monday but don't hold out much hope as historically they have proved disinterested in what I would class as a serious problem.

Many years ago I lived in a flat in a cul de sac very built up area. On my way to work on a sunday morning I found that the bottom end of my street was totally flooded and there was water continuosly bubbling up through a newly formed crack in the pavement. This was not an inch or two of water, most probably about 2ft at its deepest point. I had to climb on a wall to be able to exit the street. I called their emergency helpline number and explained the situation thinking they may respond quite quickly.....It took them 3 days as apparently drains are fitted in streets for a reason :mad: The local council issued sand bags to residents who were in danger of being flooded, the water authority did nothing.

In comparison my current situation is nowhere near as serious so I am not overly optimistic about their response.

Gigervamp

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

How large is this area? The 'perfect arc' suggests a 'feature' from when it was farmland, but no idea what that might be. You say no reason for a water pipe to be there, but maybe there was a water pipe out to a field for watering animals.

We had an area in one of our fields that was always boggy and we wondered what was causing it. Over time, the chickens scratched away the soil and we discovered there's an old bathtub buried there.

lostinrates

koalamummy wrote: »

I will be contacting them on monday but don't hold out much hope as historically they have proved disinterested in what I would class as a serious problem.

Many years ago I lived in a flat in a cul de sac very built up area. On my way to work on a sunday morning I found that the bottom end of my street was totally flooded and there was water continuosly bubbling up through a newly formed crack in the pavement. This was not an inch or two of water, most probably about 2ft at its deepest point. I had to climb on a wall to be able to exit the street. I called their emergency helpline number and explained the situation thinking they may respond quite quickly.....It took them 3 days as apparently drains are fitted in streets for a reason :mad: The local council issued sand bags to residents who were in danger of being flooded, the water authority did nothing.

In comparison my current situation is nowhere near as serious so I am not overly optimistic about their response.

It took me a year and several calls and visits. They kept saying it was a spring. This land was jhigher than the land around so i thought it was exceedingly unlikely.


The magic words water wastage and complaint might work. I would say from the first call you want to know what the cause is and if they test it and its not tap water you will sort it.

gibson123

I had something very similar and it was a natural spring that had been capped in the18th century and came out into a water feature. A new estate was built and they closed off the water feature, coincidentally (NOT) my garden and all my neighbours' gardens began to get waterlogged. The back gardens are all on slopes and were totally waterlogged, Up passed ankles in mud! and our front steps were like a stream, our front retaining walls all have little water outlet holes in the brickwork and these turned into water spouts when it rained and wet even in when the sun shone. It is seemingly not the builder of the new estates responsibility or the Council or the water company. We have had to come up with our own solutions, those in the end terraces now pipe the water down the side of the house and out to what I think is the waste water pipes, whereas the one's in the middle terraces (including me) dug pits at the top of our gardens ( mini digger required) which were then filled with rubble and then gravel on top. We all now have gravel and decking gardens and grown our veg and plants in containers. I agree you should get it tested first. What about SEPA will they test as you are in a country area?

daska

You mentioned it used to be farmland, could it be a dewpond? They're usually located near the top of a hill, are circular and of about 10yds diameter.