Is that green tea, @anon5422159? How soothing.
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Jasmine for me and my fetching frock.
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snork
[quote=āLondondrz, post:9, topic:2527, full:trueā]
There are 13,000 miles of pipe under the Capitol. [/quote]
Wow! How many miles of pipe are there under the Railway Telegraph???
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Which side?
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Seems itās a bit of a problem all over.
Burst water main caused issues for drivers on the A505 Luton to Dunstable road.
Good spot @anon64893700 but canāt get the link to work, sadly. Sounds like an interesting page.
Having issues with Thames Water right now so have got to speak with quite a few engineers. One had an intriguing insight: the basic metric that they generally work to is whether a pipe is serviceable, i.e. It carries water. Even if it leaks, it can still be classed as serviceable, so no problem.
So the leak I originally posted about turned out to cause a sink hole 8ft wide and 20ft deep! And 4 concrete mixers laterā¦ its fixed
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Itās true that many springs break their man-made bonds at this time of year. We have the same thing around the Streatham spas but we also have the water authorities blaming springs that have nothing to do with burst mains. Itās a buck passing matter. As for Sydenham Wells springs (beautiful park BTW), they are not actually brimming at the moment after a dry-ish Autumn.
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I see Lee High Road went again yesterday, now that make our leaks look like a trifling matter.
Well, some of them.
Meanwhile, Thames Water have been nominated for a project management award:
Meanwhile in Islingtonā¦
