I have lived in Spooner Row for many years and the drain system in Station Road is not fit for purpose. Every few years there is a serious drain blockage. One more day of continuous rain and it would have been very serious.
Well, the pub was not swimming in water like it was before.
We all need to do more to protect ourselves and each other. If you see a drain blocked report it to Norfolk County Council.
When ditches are filled in and piped they stop acting as slow release water measures and become more an exercise in how quickly can you move water from A to B. Keeping excess water off your own property often results in creating a problem for a neighbour down stream. This is what I think has happened this time round at Cantley Villas.
Did any of the new properties at The Ridings suffer water ingress?
The rainwater in the ditch along School Lane did not flow anywhere it just filled up like a bath. The blocked drainage system is dependent on the rainwater to seep into the ground. The Authorities are aware of this, it was brought up many times by residents during the planning process for new houses. The field where the houses are to be built was waterlogged, with the 2m deep hole with orange fencing around it (representing a hole for housing foundations) was filled to the brim.
it is damn obvious to me and anyone else with common sense that the pipe in front of the new houses is inadequate is size and has not surprisingly blocked flooding cantley villas and the properties downstream.
the water has been flowing over the top of the pipe for 3 days now and it was the vollume of water and inadequate size of the pipe that caused the serious flooding at Cantley villas 1 and 2
Can we just stop and reduce the drama level please. Even our District Councillor is now contributing to the hysteria.
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So someone digs a hole only to find that it fills up with water when it rains heavily. Why the surprise here?
The ditch on Station Road "fills up like a bath" so must be bad. Ditches within flood plains are meant to capture water and release it again slowly.
"Damm obvious to me and anyone else with common sense that the pipe in front of the new house is inadequate". Leaving aside the poor grammar, hindsight is a wonderful thing. The size of the pipe chosen for the driveway was the same size as that exiting from the adjacent property and that then flowing into the previously piped and filled in ditch at Granary House. The mistake the developer made was not piping the whole ditch. Had he done this he would have matched everyone else close by and moved the water (quickly) down to his neighbours, thereby making it a problem further down.
"water has been flowing over the top for 3 days now". The new properties are not yet sold, the water is not flowing onto the surface of the highway or adjacent property and it is not hindering the path. So what is the problem?
Really? Sending in pictures of a flood plain (clearly doing its job) as evidence of a major flooding event resulting in mass damage to property in Spooner Row.
To those claiming that they were flooded when all that occurred was a couple of inches of standing water in a garden for a few hours or a day or so, shame on you. The ones that really suffered are those that had water come through the front door and these are the ones that should be getting help.
And to those attempting to make political capital out of this event you might find yourselves having to answer to residents in 2021 when increased house insurance renewals hit the doorstep with a thump!
What a nice person you are ? Not my problem so not a problem
The water when it first arrived WAS flowing across the road for the best part of a day assisted by a pump running full bore. This was to stop the build up of flood water on the new houses side.
Fortunately last year's drainage works did their job and the water went down that side of the road, into the new pipes and into the ditch and then the Bays river.
However water on the flooded side had entered into one property further down ONLY from the side and several adjacent properties because the new pipe was clearly inadequate, having been blocked or collapsed or both and the water which was meant to run into the existing drainpipe went across the land and flooded them.
The existing pipes on the flooded side after the first 24 hours took all the water on that side , because the water was flowing over the top of the collapsed/blocked drain for at least three days . To suggest this is not an issue is the be frank assinine.
The water that had not been able to go into the existing pipe by then had stopped entering the property at the side and across the land and was finding it way into the existing pipe that runs across the front of the village hall, and Granary loke to appear the other side of the signal box. This was moving as it should and not causing issues although to my mind this clearly calls into question the suggestion of ANY new houses in this location.
I agree with you on one point , which is that the whole ditch should have been piped although what foundation you have for suggesting this would have caused problems further down is not substantiated in any shape or form that I could see, although leaving it as it is is not an option as there is the distinct possibility of damage to the front foundations of Granary House.
I am not sure what your agenda is but it is clearly not that of your fellow man.
A nearby resident had pointed out the fundamental flaws in the this drainage arrangement from the outset but no one had listened to him and I genuinely feel for the affected properties and residents not just here but in at least three other locations and possibly more.
If making an issue of building on flood plains is regarded as hysteria to your mind , good luck with that one and I make no apologies for kicking A*** as best and as hard as I can.
