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Stuart Noble

Andy Cap wrote:
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:54:11 GMT, (Anna Kettle) wrote:

I successfully challenged my charge and so did my mum. Their criterion
was something like the water must discharge to a soakaway at least 5m
from the road. A sketch map showing distances and loation of soakaway
was enough to convince them

Anna

Same here. Just sent in a rough plan showing the location of the two soakaways
and the charge was dropped. No mention of distances from the road.

Andy C

I wonder what the water companies think of people pumping water out of
their cellars. The particular street I'm thinking of obviously has deep
cellars because of the high water table in the area but, after a couple
of decades of mostly dry weather, it's easy to become complacent and
think you have a permanently dry storage area.