About a year ago, they laid new gas mains down our road and to every
property.

With all the heavy rain of late, I started to get raw sewage coming up
through my rainwater gully. Lots of jetting later and the CCTV camera
shows a large piece of timber driven into the top of the sewer pipe.
Tracing the line of the sewer and the distance to the blockage, it is
exactly under a patch where the gas people dug.

Now, someone needs to come along and dig up the road again, to replace
the sewer. Fortunately, as my house was built in 1931 and it is a shared
sewer, the water authority are responible for all costs of clearing and
repairing the sewers.

Colin Bignell

In article , "Nightjar
\"cpb\"@" "insertmysurnamehere says...
Now, someone needs to come along and dig up the road again,

Flanders and Swann mode on
#Oh it all makes work for the working man to do.
F+S mode off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOA_SUKEZRE

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:14:26 -0000, Skipweasel
wrote:

In article , "Nightjar
\"cpb\"@" "insertmysurnamehere says...
Now, someone needs to come along and dig up the road again,

Flanders and Swann mode on
#Oh it all makes work for the working man to do.
F+S mode off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOA_SUKEZRE

Brilliant! We used to have this one on a 78. No sure what happened
to the record but I couldn't play it anyway.
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lid says...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOA_SUKEZRE

Brilliant! We used to have this one on a 78. No sure what happened
to the record but I couldn't play it anyway.


A few years ago the kids gave me the whole lot on CD for Fathers' Day.

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Have y'all heard "Slow Train".

The family know that's what I want at my funeral.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU


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In article ,
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Have y'all heard "Slow Train".

The family know that's what I want at my funeral.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU

I should have pointed out, for those younger readers, that the song was
mourning Beeching's Axe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_Axe
Odd, that, I'd always heard it when I was a nipper as Beeching's Axe,
not The Beeching Axe.


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In article , Nightjar "cpb"@ wrote:

About a year ago, they laid new gas mains down our road and to every
property.

With all the heavy rain of late, I started to get raw sewage coming up
through my rainwater gully. Lots of jetting later and the CCTV camera
shows a large piece of timber driven into the top of the sewer pipe.
Tracing the line of the sewer and the distance to the blockage, it is
exactly under a patch where the gas people dug.

Now, someone needs to come along and dig up the road again, to replace
the sewer. Fortunately, as my house was built in 1931 and it is a shared
sewer, the water authority are responible for all costs of clearing and
repairing the sewers.

Colin, my house was built 1929 as one of a set of four (two pairs of
semis), and the sewers of those up the road all run into the trap in our
front garden and out to the main sewer from there. I'd be very
interested in finding the legislation that says that the water authority
are responsible.

It used to block way too often, fortunately the children next door are
no longer children and no longer flush unsuitable items. It hasn't
blocked for years... touch wood.

Justin.

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Justin C ) wibbled on Saturday 22 January 2011
12:30:

In article , Nightjar
"cpb"@ wrote:

About a year ago, they laid new gas mains down our road and to every
property.

With all the heavy rain of late, I started to get raw sewage coming up
through my rainwater gully. Lots of jetting later and the CCTV camera
shows a large piece of timber driven into the top of the sewer pipe.
Tracing the line of the sewer and the distance to the blockage, it is
exactly under a patch where the gas people dug.

Now, someone needs to come along and dig up the road again, to replace
the sewer. Fortunately, as my house was built in 1931 and it is a shared
sewer, the water authority are responible for all costs of clearing and
repairing the sewers.

Colin, my house was built 1929 as one of a set of four (two pairs of
semis), and the sewers of those up the road all run into the trap in our
front garden and out to the main sewer from there. I'd be very
interested in finding the legislation that says that the water authority
are responsible.

It used to block way too often, fortunately the children next door are
no longer children and no longer flush unsuitable items. It hasn't
blocked for years... touch wood.

Justin.

http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/legacy/aptri...ers_faq04.html
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:30:14 +0000, Justin C wrote:

In article , Nightjar
"cpb"@ wrote:

About a year ago, they laid new gas mains down our road and to every
property.

With all the heavy rain of late, I started to get raw sewage coming up
through my rainwater gully. Lots of jetting later and the CCTV camera
shows a large piece of timber driven into the top of the sewer pipe.
Tracing the line of the sewer and the distance to the blockage, it is
exactly under a patch where the gas people dug.

Now, someone needs to come along and dig up the road again, to replace
the sewer. Fortunately, as my house was built in 1931 and it is a
shared sewer, the water authority are responible for all costs of
clearing and repairing the sewers.

Colin, my house was built 1929 as one of a set of four (two pairs of
semis), and the sewers of those up the road all run into the trap in our
front garden and out to the main sewer from there. I'd be very
interested in finding the legislation that says that the water authority
are responsible.

It's a pre 1937 shared sewer. Easy to Google.

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On 22/01/2011 12:30, Justin C wrote:
In articlem_adnaAADMSqoqTQnZ2dnUVZ7sqdnZ2d@giganews. com, Nightjar"cpb"@ wrote:

About a year ago, they laid new gas mains down our road and to every
property.

With all the heavy rain of late, I started to get raw sewage coming up
through my rainwater gully. Lots of jetting later and the CCTV camera
shows a large piece of timber driven into the top of the sewer pipe.
Tracing the line of the sewer and the distance to the blockage, it is
exactly under a patch where the gas people dug.

Now, someone needs to come along and dig up the road again, to replace
the sewer. Fortunately, as my house was built in 1931 and it is a shared
sewer, the water authority are responible for all costs of clearing and
repairing the sewers.

Colin, my house was built 1929 as one of a set of four (two pairs of
semis), and the sewers of those up the road all run into the trap in our
front garden and out to the main sewer from there. I'd be very
interested in finding the legislation that says that the water authority
are responsible.

It used to block way too often, fortunately the children next door are
no longer children and no longer flush unsuitable items. It hasn't
blocked for years... touch wood.

They are known as Section 24 sewers, from Section 24 of the Public
Health Act 1936, although Section 24 was repealed by the Water Act 1989,
which has, in turn, been amended by the Water Consolidation
(Consequential Provisions) Act 1991. However, there are exemptions to
Section 24. In your case, one possibility would be if the four
properties were built as a single curtilage (e.g. as tied cottages) and
only sold off as individual properties after 1937. Your local water
authority will be able to tell you whether Section 24 applies.

Colin Bignell

In article , Tim Watts wrote:
Justin C ) wibbled on Saturday 22 January 2011
12:30:

In article , Nightjar
"cpb"@ wrote:

About a year ago, they laid new gas mains down our road and to every
property.

With all the heavy rain of late, I started to get raw sewage coming up
through my rainwater gully. Lots of jetting later and the CCTV camera
shows a large piece of timber driven into the top of the sewer pipe.
Tracing the line of the sewer and the distance to the blockage, it is
exactly under a patch where the gas people dug.

Now, someone needs to come along and dig up the road again, to replace
the sewer. Fortunately, as my house was built in 1931 and it is a shared
sewer, the water authority are responible for all costs of clearing and
repairing the sewers.

Colin, my house was built 1929 as one of a set of four (two pairs of
semis), and the sewers of those up the road all run into the trap in our
front garden and out to the main sewer from there. I'd be very
interested in finding the legislation that says that the water authority
are responsible.

It used to block way too often, fortunately the children next door are
no longer children and no longer flush unsuitable items. It hasn't
blocked for years... touch wood.

Justin.

http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/legacy/aptri...ers_faq04.html

Thank you Tim. And also thanks to Bob and Colin.

From Colin's reply it's not one of those things that just "is", it needs
investigating. As we've been here twelve (or is it thirteen?) years this
January 25th, and, other than next-door's offspring flushing toothpaste
tubes and other sundry bathroom 'toys', there has been no problem, so
I'll keep this in mind but shan't pursue as there is currently no need
to know.

Justin.

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