Public utilities - failing to clean up
 

Morrisons Utilities recently did some hydrant repairs on a tarmac
footpath opposite my home, involving lots of digging and probably
replacement of the hydrant, in front of someone's drive.

On completion, they filled the hole, tarmaced and took away the bulk of
the mess remaining, but left the path covered in mud and a drain piled
with soil. Don't they have a responsibility to clean up after
themselves any more?

Public utilities - failing to clean up
 

Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Don't they have a responsibility to clean up after themselves
any more?

When an electricity cable in the footpath went 'pop' late one night, the
supplier turned up to make a repair, and a temporary tarmac job, then a
separate team turned up a few days later to make a proper job of the
resurfacing and taking away the heap of muck etc.

Public utilities - failing to clean up
 

On 29/08/2019 08:59, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Morrisons Utilities recently did some hydrant repairs on a tarmac
footpath opposite my home, involving lots of digging and probably
replacement of the hydrant, in front of someone's drive.

On completion, they filled the hole, tarmaced and took away the bulk of
the mess remaining, but left the path covered in mud and a drain piled
with soil. Don't they have a responsibility to clean up after themselves
any more?

Some of them seem to have separate teams that follow round some time
later to do the proper making good - possibly waiting for the spoil in
the hole to consolidate a bit before topping up with the dirt left on
site, resurfacing in the style of the original finish and finally taking
the rest away.

(either that, or they just did a crap job!)

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John.

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Public utilities - failing to clean up
 

John Rumm formulated the question :
(either that, or they just did a crap job!)

It looks finished, left a week - so probably just a crap job of
cleaning up.

Public utilities - failing to clean up
 

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:32:49 +0100, Harry Bloomfield, Esq. wrote:

John Rumm formulated the question :
(either that, or they just did a crap job!)

It looks finished, left a week - so probably just a crap job of
cleaning up.

So ring them up and moan to them!

Public utilities - failing to clean up
 

On 29/08/2019 08:59, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Morrisons Utilities recently did some hydrant repairs on a tarmac
footpath opposite my home, involving lots of digging and probably
replacement of the hydrant, in front of someone's drive.

On completion, they filled the hole, tarmaced and took away the bulk of
the mess remaining, but left the path covered in mud and a drain piled
with soil. Don't they have a responsibility to clean up after themselves
any more?

Some local councils like to do the final clear up themselves, and charge
it to the utility supplier.

Bill

Public utilities - failing to clean up
 

On 29/08/2019 11:44, mechanic wrote:
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:32:49 +0100, Harry Bloomfield, Esq. wrote:

John Rumm formulated the question :
(either that, or they just did a crap job!)

It looks finished, left a week - so probably just a crap job of
cleaning up.

So ring them up and moan to them!

No moan to the owner of the pavement.

Bill

Public utilities - failing to clean up
 

On 29/08/2019 08:59, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Morrisons Utilities recently did some hydrant repairs on a tarmac
footpath opposite my home, involving lots of digging and probably
replacement of the hydrant, in front of someone's drive.

On completion, they filled the hole, tarmaced and took away the bulk of
the mess remaining, but left the path covered in mud and a drain piled
with soil. Don't they have a responsibility to clean up after themselves
any more?

take a photo of it and yourself with the obligatory sad face and sell
it to the Daily Mail ?

Public utilities - failing to clean up
 

Normally on a road surface, first they make a temporary job then wait for it
to settle then come back and do it with whatever was there before.
It can go wrong though as we have a series of pot holes near me which were
dug out when the company was EDF, and temp filled over a new connection to a
building. Here we are nearly a decade later, London Power Networks are the
current company and they deny all knowledge of the work of course so it
will no doubt all go bang one day cutting of the whole building at which
point somebody will need to fix it. The council merely push all complaints
to lpn.
Brian

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Morrisons Utilities recently did some hydrant repairs on a tarmac footpath
opposite my home, involving lots of digging and probably replacement of
the hydrant, in front of someone's drive.

On completion, they filled the hole, tarmaced and took away the bulk of
the mess remaining, but left the path covered in mud and a drain piled
with soil. Don't they have a responsibility to clean up after themselves
any more?