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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? |
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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. |
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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!) -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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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. |
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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! |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 ? |
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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 -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! Harry Bloomfield; "Esq." wrote in message ... 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? |
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