Streetlife

Ann P

(Boring!) Drains

O.K., so how many of you have water up to your doorsteps, or puddles too big by far for you to traipse through?   How many get soaked feet going shopping in town?   A top officer from the Environment Agency has told me that he feels sorry for the people in the Colony.  He might as well have said he feels sorry for people in the town centre, for the level isn't that different.   Fact is, as he admitted, we need new drains.   Yesterday.  But we won't get them unless we impress our need on the Powers That Be.   So, chaps and chapesses, how about making a noise?  Writing letters to our councillors, to the EA, to Hugo Swire, to uncle Tom Cobley and all.  Having drainage on the agenda of the next meeting of your Associations, Clubs and whatever.   Create a groundswell of protest that the Powers cannot ignore.   So that next time you get soaked by a passing car or step into a deep puddle you at least know you're doing something about it!

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Chrissy P
excellant idea and totally agree with you - will write a letter cheers from a colony resident
Barry john M
and what makes you think they will listen? There is no profit in it for them.
Ann P
Thank you, Chrissy, we Colony Residents need to stand together on this.  Barry, is it being so negative that keeps you going?   Come on!  Chins up!  Don't take No for and answer!   The Powers that Be will tell us that haven't the money.  I tell 'em if they can afford to pay £52 million EVERY DAY to the EU they can afford to look after us, dammit.   There was talk about installing new drains back in 1972, what's that - forty years ago?  Ridiculous, absolutely barmy, asking for trouble.  We had water lapping at our doorstep last night, fortunately after the tide had turned, but
nonetheless frightening.  We're in our seventies, we don't relish having to move possessions upstairs for safety, it's hard work.  We need new drains.  Stat.
Ann P
This lunchtime we had in invastion of yellow jackets, led by Cllr Eileen Wragg. They had come to talk floods and to assure me that every letter I have written is on file and being noted.   They listened to Himself explaining how sea water seeps into the Colony through a badly maintained river wall and that there is some question about it undermining the railway and the Marine Way and the bank.  Well, if it goes from A to B, what happens on the way?  I do believe that a concerted effort is at last being made to solve the flooding problem.   I still worry about people who have bought property alongside the brook, though.  Have they been told about their Riparian Duties?  They will take, as Cilla used to say, 'a lorra, lorra money'.  I just hope their solicitors told them so at point of sale.  Mind you, if they didn't they are at fault.
Nick M
At least Eileen Wragg cares about the locals - more than you can say about some of them! :-(

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