On 02/02/2021 16:48, Andrew wrote:
On 31/01/2021 17:43, Steve Walker wrote:
On 31/01/2021 12:39, Andrew wrote:
On 30/01/2021 14:43, Jimmy Stewart ... wrote:
On 30/01/2021 14:01, Andrew wrote:
On 30/01/2021 13:35, Jimmy Stewart ... wrote:
On 29/01/2021 14:00, Mario & Luigi wrote:
€˜Shocking overloading the sewer.Â* Reply.Â* We also researched the
road where we live.Â* 50% of the houses in our Road now divert
their gutters by overground pipes towards the main road. When we
have Heavy Downpours the road floods like a river running down
the sides towards the business at the bottom of the road. Which
gets flooded. Much More Shocking.Â*

totly

But unless you live somewhere like Worthing, it doesn't get
into the foul drains unless there is a tropical downpour,
when it ends up dumped into the sea via a series of outfalls
that terminate well *above* low tide line.

Southern water have helpfully put up notices advising of
'poor beach conditions' after heavy rain !

what a load of ****e

fact. Along the coast at Brighton, surfers/swimmers created an
action group SAS (Surfers Against Sewage) because they were
getting ill all the time.

Southern Water finally fixed? the problem by using a Tunnel Boring
Machine to make a massive chamber under Brighton promenade which
captures excess sewage/rainwater after heavy rain.
Then they can pump it out and treat it after the storm has passed.

It must be big. The quantities involved can be massive. I remember
reading about when United Utilities tried to charge Peel Holdings for
rainwater drainage from the Trafford Centre (until Peel pointed out
that their run-off went into the Manchester Ship Canal ... that they
owned). The figure for the Trafford Centre and its car parks was 10
tonnes per second!


https://able.co.uk/media/2014/02/suc...n-brighton.pdf

5km of 6m diameter - yup, that's pretty big.