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Post by jonksy on Oct 17, 2024 19:29:47 GMT
You want to go to Torbay the road works are horendous caused by upgrading and enlarging water pipes.. A temporary disruption for the creation of a permanent solution to a long-standing problem that should have been fixed decades ago. Sounds like a great deal to me. All The Best It is great that SW water are upgrading their infrastructure. I am not sure if they are doing it off their own back or that they have been lent on...It's about time they stopped pumping raw sewage into the sea across the SW... |
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Post by jonksy on Oct 17, 2024 19:44:37 GMT
And how many acres does a 600 house housing estate take up FFS.. And some reservoirs are underground...
See inside stunning underground reservoir in Lincoln
Huge underground reservoir drained for 'deep clean'
Indeed. However, except in exceptional circumstances where the perfect geology exists, "underground reservoirs" are usually carved out of the ground from above, and then "capped". Which means you still need overground access to the whole site - hence there being far fewer places suitable to do that, than there are for Mobile Masts. There have been some tests of pumping water into depleted aquifers to use as "natural reservoirs", the problem then becomes what happens to water that would naturally end up in those aquifers if the aquifer is full - it becomes flood run-off. However, storage is only one part of the problem, there's also distribution, and at the other end of the cycle sewerage; both the distribution and sewerage systems are working at beyond capacity: distribution because there are so many leaks some Water Companies leak as much as they deliver to paying customer; and sewerage because there has not been sufficient capacity growth to match population growth. Both of which are caused by systemic under-investment since privatisation; because far too much money is lost to shareholders, excessive executive remuneration packages, and buying hotels and golf courses. All The Best When I lived in Oxfordshire many of the sand and gravel pits that had been exhausted were turned into reservoirs after privatisation. They also had sailing clubs and other water sports held on them and the money that came in from that was used to landscape them. They are a haven now for waterfowl and wild life.... |
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Post by johnofgwent on Oct 18, 2024 7:02:31 GMT
I have absolutely no idea what that has to do with what I wrote... I think that's more a Welsh water thing Welsh water was the prime example of waste, corruption and disinterest. Post privatisation the company was more interested in building hotels and golf courses on the land the former nationalised industry had been given to build reservoirs, using crown immunity to dodge planning regulations. I picked up a job interview for the parent company in an exceptionally strange way. I was asked to put a CV in an unmarked envelope and hand it to a bloke in a pub. I then got an invite to an interview where i was asked to send a CV by post to someone in their HR dept so they could fabricate a paper trail for any who asked to make it seem I'd applied during a public open tendering stage, for the position they'd just filled by offering it to me The company was approved to action a hostile takeover of the old south Wales electricity board, and I was headhunted bybthecSWEB Departmental head to join a team in that group to aid the resistance to it being taken over against it's will, to bolster the IT department against the onslaught of Welsh Water's IT takeover vultures It was a mix of the most entertaining, and the most corrosive, part of my freelance career. I remember it for the racist anti English management, the incompetence, the disasters that befell it during tranche 4:deregulation, and of course it's eventual demise After being outed as a waste of space by another water company for whom it had aggressively marketed a complete FusterCluck of a mainframe accounts system, the company lost several contracts in succession and imploded. One of my wife's cousin's married a senior manager in its 'Business Services' division. Sent tomAustralia to attempt an aggressive takeover of systems out there, he was abandoned in the outback when the implosion occurred. I'd left the company long since and was mildly surprised to find one if the girls I'd mentored working as a BA in the Nationwide when I briefly joined them to crowbar open an Oracle based Mi system to see WTF was up with it, and the other was an SQL developer at NTL when I went to sort their Y2K woes. Hyder Business Services's website was bought and used to sell a large amount of strange things. Impersonally know one individual who used it to buy the precursor materials to make 25kg of crystal meth and you could also buy industrial quantities of explosive precursors from it, all shipped from India...... Out of the wreckage a 'not for profit' outfit was genetically engineered. Since then my bill has increased by about 600% and the regulator has recently chastised them as a bunch of useless, bloated, overcharging Wassocks...... |
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