No water
Woke up this morning and stumbled down for a coffee, realised the filter jug hadn't been filled up so I tipped enough water for one cup into the kettle and went to add some more to the jug. "That's a bit weak" I thought as the water tricked out.
Checked the other water sources and yep not much coming out; then with the neighbours, those awake at least, and yep them too; good misery shared is misery halved ;-)
Better call up Severn Trent Water; grabbed my phonebook which for some reason is an older one (just don't recall getting a new one) and turned to the business listings under S "Severn Trent Water see our panel at Water" turned to W and Water and... nothing. Excellent. Got their number off an old bill in the end only for a recording to tell me they knew something was going on.
So at least I got my coffee and with the immersion heater got a wash and shave, which is more than can be said for those who got up after 8am and found no water at all. Anyway it's supposed to be back on now.
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See: http://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/local/5020980.Burst_main_leaves_1_000_without_water_in_Wyre_Forest/?ref=tmr
Ah wasn't there this morning, someone did mention the borehole but only as a snippet they'd heard on the radio.
Amazing how one burst pipe can affect so many.
I imagine the problem was much wider than The Shuttle article implies. There was no water in here in Shrawley nor at my son's in Little Witley, so my guess is there was none also in Holt, Hillhampton or Great Witley villages.
And I expect we'll never be told the cause though we did get this read the last paragraph in which a spokesperson states that burst pipes were common in winter due to the ground expanding and contracting.
Note he doesn't say this is what happened just lets us infer that, besides if you know that the ground does this around pipes why not fit some sort of compression ring around them? Wait that'll cost money.
…and fixing a broken pipe doesn't?
Oh, wait, I'm assuming forward planning…
Heh maybe they have a target as to how broken pipes they have to fix within a set time. Obviously if there are no such repairs to be made they've failed to reach their target.
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