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<blockquote data-quote="mx110" data-source="post: 8984167" data-attributes="member: 5189"><p>so much of the infrastructure is massively outdated and badly maintained. I used to do a bit of relief driving on gulley wagon/drain jetter for a firm, I was out the night of storm desmond 2015 racing round different reports of flooding trying to clear grids and blockages etc and then again in the following days. My time on then wagons did show how much damage there is to existing drainage infrastructure. The amount of bog roll and grey water in some roadside drains where obviously people have added toilets etc to drains instead of sewers. In one 50 yard stretch that flooded every time it rained there was a gulley top that was the highest point on the rd, bt duct through the drain and the main problem all boiled out where the gas pipe went through the drain. Its probably still like that years later.</p><p>A common problem was tree roots clogging the drains 100 yr old drains with big mature trees ontop and all around them, we spent days with root cutters but i bet there the same again now, nobody would even suggest that the trees need to come down and a new pipe laid. The investment needed to sort the few problems i saw properly would be unreal so they get a quick bodge or just left to get worse and worse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mx110, post: 8984167, member: 5189"] so much of the infrastructure is massively outdated and badly maintained. I used to do a bit of relief driving on gulley wagon/drain jetter for a firm, I was out the night of storm desmond 2015 racing round different reports of flooding trying to clear grids and blockages etc and then again in the following days. My time on then wagons did show how much damage there is to existing drainage infrastructure. The amount of bog roll and grey water in some roadside drains where obviously people have added toilets etc to drains instead of sewers. In one 50 yard stretch that flooded every time it rained there was a gulley top that was the highest point on the rd, bt duct through the drain and the main problem all boiled out where the gas pipe went through the drain. Its probably still like that years later. A common problem was tree roots clogging the drains 100 yr old drains with big mature trees ontop and all around them, we spent days with root cutters but i bet there the same again now, nobody would even suggest that the trees need to come down and a new pipe laid. The investment needed to sort the few problems i saw properly would be unreal so they get a quick bodge or just left to get worse and worse. [/QUOTE]
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