lack of drainage

[man in the street]

we have just had  a cloud burst, and i was stunned that our drainage system for the roads and steets ,no longer appear to work, the trading estate roads were flooded  and whellies needed to cross the road.  the bottom of grouville hill developed a small lake, what a waste of water the run off  is.

[Fritz]

Maybe someone forgot to turn the multi-million pound ,"Cavern ",on?

[tonytheprof]

Remember that the cavern only works for the St Helier area. The pump in the West can only send water that way at a particular speed.

St Aubin is usually badly hit, especially if the tide is high and water cannot get out.

Can you imagine the underground road and car park that comes up at Gloucester Street coping? You'd need pumps pushing water out - no wonder the maintenance for that was estimated at 1/2 million a year - taxpayers money if they decide to go ahead!

[Dundee]

More pollution problems no doubt as the overflow all goes off into the sea, best lay of the oysters for a few weeks.

I was down Gorey pier this evening and it was alive with rats, many of the visitors thought it very unusual but entertaining, I hate the things so was not that amused.

[man in the street]

i do rember when young, that the parish of st h had a truck which used to cleen out the sumps on all drains along the streets  definately once a year, if not twice , and think tts have the same .
 i guess if the tide had been up it may of being worse.

[Fritz]

Nowadays road gulleys only seem to be cleaned out after they have failed.

Probably works on the same system that H&S only appear on Building sites after an accident occurs.

[man in the street]

quite true, the bottom of grouville, hill was farted about with sometime ago and still floods even with moderate rain.
 regarding h&s , a hard hat , boots and hi vis jacket.cannot clean the site of crap laying about, and do nothing for air quality, when a bloke sets up next to you with a grinder filling your air space with dust.
 dust free with extraction , too expensive to save the modern day slaves?
 

[Fritz]

I noticed yesterday that most of the , "Floodwater", that ran straight over the top of road-gulleys soon disappeared when the gulleys were un-blocked.

Also, a helluva lot of the rainwater in town came from overflowing roof gutters,(Water running down the face of buildings), that probably haven,t been cleared for years.

Systems in place have to be maintained, before, not after the event.

"Simples".

[Dylan]

There needs to be a witchunt now, who's fault is it? TTS?? Interesting, an anagram of witchunt is with....

[man in the street]

i will go with not looked at for years , if your building lashes water into the street, you should be made to fix it, there is enough people around looking after absentee landlords places

[Dylan]

That's a bit thick!
Rain comes from the sky, not buildings!

[man in the street]

quite true rain does come from the sky, but you would have to be a bit daft , not to get the guist of my meaning, also within that water flowing over the gutters or other outlets is , dead birds , seagull shit and toxic pidgeon crap, and if humans have access to  a roof area or a dormer window , i will let you think what else is laying about up there, 8 pints and a curry gone wrong , comes to mind.

[Dylan]

Brilliant deduction sherlock!
The drains which are the blocked ones are under the ROAD!

[man in the street]

dylan, read fritz;s post and read about overflowing roof gutters,  we could resort to name calling , but i am not.

[Dylan]

I don't give a witches tit about Fritze's posting, this thread if you read the dollop's original bit is about the lack of drains in the ROAD er , I though you may have even written it?