| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Another Thames Water blunder or just plain arrogance? | |
| Posted by: | Steve Taylor | |
| Date/Time: | 18/06/06 13:33:00 |
| Christine Unlike you and Jim, I am a relative 'newcomer' to the area having lived in Mile End, Gunnersbury, Chiswick, Barnes, Cape Town, Johannesburg,Oslo, Florence and Madrid. I love all the good things about Isleworth you have mentioned and I believe it is a wonderful community but I see absolutely no reason to put up with the bad things. In my book that's called complacency. No doubt I will move on from Isleworth in due course when my daughter finishes at her marvellous high school (The Green School) in a few years but while I am still here I will do everything possible to change things for the better for myself, my family and all those who support change for the better. Whilst in our wonderful democratic society everyone is entitled to their own views I find it very difficult to understand statements like "it was a "healthy" smell, and it had always been there, and they just got on with it" Whilst it may indeed be sad that we live in times when "litigation seems to be the only option" is it not sad that we live in times when powerful corporations making £billions simply turn their backs on those suffering due to their own greed and isn't it not even more sad that 22 years ago some chose to simply accept their plight as being par for the course? There is no reason why one has to put up with smelly gasworks, carbon monoxides, noise etc etc. Obviously living on a flight path in a capital city is a world-wide phenomenon but a mismanaged, underfunded sewage works in the centre of a densely populated area is simply not on in my book. As Jim commented, Mogden is a disgrace and Thames Water must either "shape up or ship out" There simply are no excuses. |