Hi All
We've had a problem with the sewers since around 2 years ago. This has a bit of a history, but here goes:
We live on a 200 year old converted army barracks. When the MOD moved out, a developer bought the entire site. They sold off 4 of the original buildings and we live in one of them.
The site is not finished yet, but the entire site - roads, footpaths etc is to be adopted by the council EXCEPT the road outside our house. Underneath the road is the old victorian sewer which travels up toward the front gate and the last bit of the sewer travels under a future adopted road.
This plan shows what will be adopted and what will stay private:
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A couple of years ago, the developer connected around 90 new builds onto the original sewer and then the problems started. Our sewers are combined, so surface water and sewage all travels down the same pipes.
Since then we have been having problems with backflow. Our neighbour has a moat, and has found raw sewage fed back out the rain exit paricularly when it rains. In our back garden we have a 10 foot sewage shaft. It keeps blocking, but at the FAR side of the U-bend, which I assume is the backflow problem. Last time I went down, there were sewage stains 3 foot up the wall. That's quite a backflow!
The problem I think, is a bellied pipe at the gate. I know this 'cos I saw dyno-rod try and camera it. They couldn't do this as it's holding too much water to camera it. The camera just dissapears underneath the water. The dyno-rod guy explained that if it hold water, it will collect debris and cause the backflow.
The developer is useless. He just agrees anything to get rid of you and does nothing. The council are just as useless. They spend more time fobbing you off than dealing with the problems.
The new threat is the developer has almost finished the next phase and is about to connect 40 more residences to it. You can guess the rest.
Building control tell me they can't stop the developer making a connection, but can withhold completion certificates, but I think it will be too late then. It will all get forgotten again and the council will 'mistakenly' award the certs.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd be very grateful.
Sorry this post is so long!
Cheers
Steve
We've had a problem with the sewers since around 2 years ago. This has a bit of a history, but here goes:
We live on a 200 year old converted army barracks. When the MOD moved out, a developer bought the entire site. They sold off 4 of the original buildings and we live in one of them.
The site is not finished yet, but the entire site - roads, footpaths etc is to be adopted by the council EXCEPT the road outside our house. Underneath the road is the old victorian sewer which travels up toward the front gate and the last bit of the sewer travels under a future adopted road.
This plan shows what will be adopted and what will stay private:
View media item 2377
A couple of years ago, the developer connected around 90 new builds onto the original sewer and then the problems started. Our sewers are combined, so surface water and sewage all travels down the same pipes.
Since then we have been having problems with backflow. Our neighbour has a moat, and has found raw sewage fed back out the rain exit paricularly when it rains. In our back garden we have a 10 foot sewage shaft. It keeps blocking, but at the FAR side of the U-bend, which I assume is the backflow problem. Last time I went down, there were sewage stains 3 foot up the wall. That's quite a backflow!
The problem I think, is a bellied pipe at the gate. I know this 'cos I saw dyno-rod try and camera it. They couldn't do this as it's holding too much water to camera it. The camera just dissapears underneath the water. The dyno-rod guy explained that if it hold water, it will collect debris and cause the backflow.
The developer is useless. He just agrees anything to get rid of you and does nothing. The council are just as useless. They spend more time fobbing you off than dealing with the problems.
The new threat is the developer has almost finished the next phase and is about to connect 40 more residences to it. You can guess the rest.
Building control tell me they can't stop the developer making a connection, but can withhold completion certificates, but I think it will be too late then. It will all get forgotten again and the council will 'mistakenly' award the certs.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd be very grateful.
Sorry this post is so long!
Cheers
Steve