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Topic: burst water main 
Posted by: Kevin Regan
Date/Time: 10/09/10 10:41:00

That's part of the problem, Sharon, the Water Companies get their revenue from us, so any costs and penalties simply "permeate" through back into OUR bills. Perhaps if the Gov't ensured that costs arising from negligence etc came first out of the Director's bonuses, then something would be done to bring these incidents down.
I hope I am wrong, but it seems that in the interval between repair and reinstatement of the road surface (about a week) then further checks on the condition of adjacent pipes could be carried out.
This is not the first instance of a repair closely followed by further nearby failures, leading to the conclusion that this may have been spotted if more diligence had been applied. It seems we currently have a patch here another there and the pipe is simply too old to withstand anything like "normal" pressure, let alone increased demand.


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
burst water main08/09/10 08:49:00 Sharon Allen
   Re:burst water main08/09/10 11:30:00 Vanessa Smith
      Re:Re:burst water main08/09/10 11:40:00 Sarah Tonks
         Re:Re:Re:burst water main08/09/10 12:09:00 Andrew Sibley
            Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main08/09/10 12:16:00 Andrew Sibley
         Re:Re:Re:burst water main08/09/10 12:22:00 Sharon Allen
            Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main08/09/10 20:53:00 Steve Taylor
               burst water main09/09/10 09:42:00 Kevin Regan
                  Re:burst water main09/09/10 13:08:00 Adam Beamish
                  Re:burst water main  (The Ham hit !)09/09/10 13:09:00 Jim Lawes
                     Re:Re:burst water main  (And just a month ago!)09/09/10 13:12:00 Jim Lawes
                        Re:burst water main  (Brentfordians are used to getting soaked! )09/09/10 13:21:00 Jim Lawes
                           Re:Re:burst water main  09/09/10 13:32:00 Jim Lawes
                              burst water main  09/09/10 16:43:00 Anya Morris
                                 Re:burst water main  10/09/10 02:17:00 Neil Chippendale
                                    Re:Re:burst water main  10/09/10 07:39:00 Sharon Allen
                                       burst water main  10/09/10 10:41:00 Kevin Regan
                                          Re:burst water main  10/09/10 11:48:00 Steve Taylor
                                             Re:Re:burst water main  10/09/10 12:42:00 Vanessa Smith
                                                Re:Re:Re:burst water main  11/09/10 09:55:00 Robert A Field
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main  14/09/10 07:52:00 Steve Taylor
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main  14/09/10 09:40:00 Sarah Sharp
                                                         Re:burst water main  14/09/10 09:44:00 Sarah Sharp
                                                            Re:Re:burst water main  14/09/10 11:02:00 Jennifer Long
                                                               Re:Re:Re:burst water main  14/09/10 11:12:00 Vanessa Smith
                                                                  Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main  16/09/10 07:50:00 Jennifer Long
                                                                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main  17/09/10 12:50:00 Jennifer Long
                                                                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:burst water main  18/09/10 09:32:00 Jennifer Long
                                                                           Burst water main  16/09/10 21:24:00 Kevin Regan

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