Sewers Blocked

sprob

Who is responsible for making sure that the sewers are maintained ie that rain drains away, after yesterdays deluge the whole area where I live is under six inches of standing water and in fact a young man of only 28 died in Hessle whilst trying it seems to unblock the drains, very, very sad (Hessle is only about 1 mile from where I live)

Poppycat

I would of thought it would be water company s they charge you for dealing with consumption of water and drainage, although they may get a 3rd party to do work

Just found this quote "[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]But North West Water, who are responsible for sewage disposal in the area" I assume it will be Yorkshire Water in your area
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sprob

So it is the water companies that should make sure that the sewers in the gutter and the main sewers usually situated in the middle of the road are clear, is that right - do they have a LEGAL obligation to do this, how do you make them sort out the problem

sprob

Yes it is Yorkshire Water

Cardew

The main sewers are Yorkshire water.

They might be prioritising their work though!!

From what I have seen they are quite busy at the moment.

sprob

:mad: :mad: Thats great we've got one poor soul who's dead, and now they decide to do something about it, I have water under the floor of my house and I can tell by the level from outside that it is up to the joists on the ground floor and probably at floorboard level - the airbricks are submerged, the rear garden is under 15 inches of water and is only about 1 inch below the threshold of the back door, whatever happened to the trucks that used to come round - the ones with the big hose on them?
They need their ars\s kicking, profit before life???

Poppycat

I think the trucks your referring to are the councils, They tend to maintain the outside grates on the road, not sure if they do it for love or get paid by YW.

In fairness I no its hard for you, but the weather is terrible this June and they have only so many resources I assume saving life's then later property

Hope it doesn't do any damage, I live 50 miles up road from you so now how bad it is, we have had only a few days without rain this month where I am

sprob

Well just emailed YW and Alan Johnson my MP - see were I get from here.

Looks as though I will need to replace the whole of the ground floor joists ,floorboards carpets and laminate.

Life most definitely does come first everytime

Woby_Tide

sprob wrote: »

:mad: :mad: Thats great we've got one poor soul who's dead, and now they decide to do something about it, I have water under the floor of my house and I can tell by the level from outside that it is up to the joists on the ground floor and probably at floorboard level - the airbricks are submerged, the rear garden is under 15 inches of water and is only about 1 inch below the threshold of the back door, whatever happened to the trucks that used to come round - the ones with the big hose on them?
They need their ars\s kicking, profit before life???

I'm not sure logistically that a couple of trucks with hoses will be enough to reduce the level of the Humber will they? Whilst it's distressing they obviously have to prioritise and can't deal with every flooded property at once

Cardew

sprob,
The normal situation is not that the sewers are blocked as such, but they simply don't have the capacity to carry away all the water that is trying to run into them.

The sewers in your street run into other sewers and these are probably full of water.

sprob

Woby Tide - I am fully aware that a couple of trucks cant do the job, what I am saying is that because of a lack of regular flushing (pun intended) through of the system the situation would not arise in the first place, if the storm drain cant handle it because they are restricted by blockages were is the excess supposed to go, it probably starts at the main discharge pipe which is huge but any blockage throughout the whole system will have a knockon effect