Following the recent planning decision to allow the 3 houses at the bottom of Thorpe Downs Road, it had been requested at the committee that the flooding situation needs to be looked into and the following resolution was made:
That the Council’s drainage engineer write to Severn Trent Water, requesting a review of the adjacent pumping station problems, with a request that an engineer also inspect the ditch to the rear in order to investigate possible dredging to expand capacity.
The issue has now been investigated and the following actions have been communicated:
- The adoption process of the Sewage Pumping Station is well underway, with very close liaison with Severn Trent Water.
- New Flight pumps have been installed quite recently and these will have the capacity to take the additional flows from the new proposed three further dwellings.
- It is likely that the transfer will be completed with Severn Trent in the next 12 months, however for whatever reason if this does not happen within this timescale, new legislation will ensure that all Section 104 adoptions will be transferred to STW on the 1st October 20016.
- The existing site Surface Water system is not adopted either, however it’s likely that this will go through at the same time as the SPS, this is due to the consent being outstanding to discharge to the existing water course.
- Approximately 500m of the water course has been inspected and there does not appear to be any visible restrictions and the amount of visible silt is not excessive as to require dredging.
- Furthermore there is sufficient flow and depths to the ditch is approximately 1.50m which will provide capacity in wet weather conditions
Hope this is useful to residents. If there are any further issues, please let us know
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