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Saturday 1 October 2011

Surface Water Flooding

I expect there will be more problems with surface water flooding over the Winter.  Many assume that this is a Council responsibility, but the reality is more complicated.  The Council is responsible for keeping the gullies clear, but the actual drains belong to the water utility.  I suspect this lies behind the not particularly co-ordinated approach.  Hopefully, we will be able to work with Thames Water to better develop a system to prevent localised flooding.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

How do you define the "gullies"?

Does Brent have responsibility for blocked street drains that require a "suction lorry" to clear out the sump(?) of the drains? I presume that is the equivalent of the U-bend on houshold drains.

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