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evening all sorry long post trying to give correct details
I’m new here and I’m hoping someone here will know what these cast iron pipes are. And at the bottom of the bottom there’s a metal straight edge a bit bigger than the width of a brick.
House deeds and Severn Trent water searches are useless. No pipes, manhole lids or anything on maps. No house plans from the council. No records of anything.
Since new neighbours moved in and they had some huge conifers, shrubs and tress cut down my garden has become flooded.
Their garden at the top patio area is higher than mine. But I’ve never had flooding ground water problem in 20 years. Neighbours had overgrown stuff cut down last summer and since then it’s weird my garden is flooded.
I have a steel manhole chamber at the very bottom of garden. We found out that drain fed into the street around the corner. The pipe connects those houses surface downpipe water. That pipe was old clay broken by tree roots. Severn Trent got roots out last year and about 8 weeks they relined it repaired it. It’s not the source of my flooded garden as it at the bottom.
The top and down 3/4 quarters of garden is flooded. So I’ve been digging and found parts of old cast iron pipe. Its direction is diagonal but can’t find the rest of the pipe under the boundary fence on my right.
Severn Trent visited again. Said it was a clay land drain pipe. Camera only went in 6 ft and hit what they said was a brick manhole. Refused to accept its old sewer drainage running diagonal towards the neighbours blocked off downpipe.
I’m chasing their reports and camera footage. I’ve carried on digging trenches found a long cast iron pipe which could have been connected to the other pipe. And at bottom of the pipe towards bottom of lawn is this metal wall frame structure that I want to dig around tomorrow.
Also I know there’s a huge concrete round lid structure buried under soil at the very bottom of the garden. I’ve been told it’s a storm drain feeding the roads surface water going down to the street back of our houses.
Going to try a metal detector tomorrow see if it picks up the rest of the long cast iron pipe see if it goes in the direction of this mystery buried concrete storm drain.
Anyway I’m fuming because the new neighbour won’t dig her derelict garden to find this broken drainage pipe that I guarantee leads to her council bodge job blocked over downpipe gully. She’s been asking council demanding they dig her garden up. Asking Severn Trent. She’s trying to get her garden dug over and levelled for free by anyone but herself paying. The cheeky cow was in my garden when Severn Trent was here telling me to dig my lawn up. Trying to get the spade to dig. So her garden and the other 2 houses are wet derelict grass areas and my garden is landscaped but the lowest garden suffering the damage. I’ve spent 20 years landscaping it. Changed patio etc many times. Just had a very very expensive patio last spring. My was a turf laid lawn is now a mud river.
I’ve dug trenches to try to get the water to flow to the bottom gravel area but this ground water just keeps flowing it won’t stop!
So any idea what this cast iron pipe is ?
What this section of metal frame is ?
Sorry long post
I’m fuming and have anxiety.
My was lovely garden is ruined.
It was my quiet place my sacred place to pottering around growing plants in greenhouse.
Had a specialist civil engineer grounds expert visit this morning 9 k quote to do herringbone drainage but he said it might not work because of the constant flow of ground water coming down from the neighbours gardens.
What can I do ?
Last photo is the neighbours garden. Shared alleyway behind the gate. The roof downpipe was by the back gate. Council just moved pipe around wall through alley out to front drains front of houses.
Any ideas please
I’m new here and I’m hoping someone here will know what these cast iron pipes are. And at the bottom of the bottom there’s a metal straight edge a bit bigger than the width of a brick.
House deeds and Severn Trent water searches are useless. No pipes, manhole lids or anything on maps. No house plans from the council. No records of anything.
Since new neighbours moved in and they had some huge conifers, shrubs and tress cut down my garden has become flooded.
Their garden at the top patio area is higher than mine. But I’ve never had flooding ground water problem in 20 years. Neighbours had overgrown stuff cut down last summer and since then it’s weird my garden is flooded.
I have a steel manhole chamber at the very bottom of garden. We found out that drain fed into the street around the corner. The pipe connects those houses surface downpipe water. That pipe was old clay broken by tree roots. Severn Trent got roots out last year and about 8 weeks they relined it repaired it. It’s not the source of my flooded garden as it at the bottom.
The top and down 3/4 quarters of garden is flooded. So I’ve been digging and found parts of old cast iron pipe. Its direction is diagonal but can’t find the rest of the pipe under the boundary fence on my right.
Severn Trent visited again. Said it was a clay land drain pipe. Camera only went in 6 ft and hit what they said was a brick manhole. Refused to accept its old sewer drainage running diagonal towards the neighbours blocked off downpipe.
I’m chasing their reports and camera footage. I’ve carried on digging trenches found a long cast iron pipe which could have been connected to the other pipe. And at bottom of the pipe towards bottom of lawn is this metal wall frame structure that I want to dig around tomorrow.
Also I know there’s a huge concrete round lid structure buried under soil at the very bottom of the garden. I’ve been told it’s a storm drain feeding the roads surface water going down to the street back of our houses.
Going to try a metal detector tomorrow see if it picks up the rest of the long cast iron pipe see if it goes in the direction of this mystery buried concrete storm drain.
Anyway I’m fuming because the new neighbour won’t dig her derelict garden to find this broken drainage pipe that I guarantee leads to her council bodge job blocked over downpipe gully. She’s been asking council demanding they dig her garden up. Asking Severn Trent. She’s trying to get her garden dug over and levelled for free by anyone but herself paying. The cheeky cow was in my garden when Severn Trent was here telling me to dig my lawn up. Trying to get the spade to dig. So her garden and the other 2 houses are wet derelict grass areas and my garden is landscaped but the lowest garden suffering the damage. I’ve spent 20 years landscaping it. Changed patio etc many times. Just had a very very expensive patio last spring. My was a turf laid lawn is now a mud river.
I’ve dug trenches to try to get the water to flow to the bottom gravel area but this ground water just keeps flowing it won’t stop!
So any idea what this cast iron pipe is ?
What this section of metal frame is ?
Sorry long post
I’m fuming and have anxiety.
My was lovely garden is ruined.
It was my quiet place my sacred place to pottering around growing plants in greenhouse.
Had a specialist civil engineer grounds expert visit this morning 9 k quote to do herringbone drainage but he said it might not work because of the constant flow of ground water coming down from the neighbours gardens.
What can I do ?
Last photo is the neighbours garden. Shared alleyway behind the gate. The roof downpipe was by the back gate. Council just moved pipe around wall through alley out to front drains front of houses.
Any ideas please
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