Human Poo flowing across Oxonian Street

[DulwichGlobetrotter]

Please be careful when walking down Oxonian Street and ideally avoid the road. There?s an open sewer spewing human poo & everything else across the pavement and road.

I reported it to Southwark Council yesterday morning and was assured it would be dealt with quickly but there?s been no clean up, no signs or barriers put up & people are walking through it, tramping it around East Dulwich.

This is coming from a private tenanted property on East Dulwich Grove and, despite being warned yesterday, it looks like the residents are continuing to use the toilet facilities so it is an ongoing and frankly revolting incident.

Please avoid this street and add your voice to the complaints to Southwark Council to sort this quickly.

[Spartacus]

Has it also reported it to Thames water who deal with the sewers ?

[DulwichGlobetrotter]

No, the pipe is part of the private property, not the Thames Water system. It?s a matter for the landlord and the council.

[KidKruger]

Hmmmm interesting.

Looks like at least two things going on here (if plumbing norms have been adhered to).

1. An outlet for (presumably) sink/bath, which has a section missing, so is issuing water to the ground surface outside.

2. A build-up of possibly toilet waste, but unclear where from - possibly a backed-up drain.

Ideally the lower gauge outlet in (1) is not the source of the bad stuff because it looks too narrow for toilet waste.

If it has been the source perhaps why that section was removed, to resolve a blockage.

Whatever the circumstances, dangerous and gross !

[Cyclemonkey]

That's what I thought! On first look the human waste referred to seems to be coming out of a broken outlet pipe not a soil stack, I am stuggling to think how that would even work!

[George Orwell]

How about: WC waste is blocked and poo is backing up into kitchen sink. Tenant removes connection in outside pipe work and the problem is ?solved? !

[Cyclemonkey]

Your soil stack shouldn't back up in to your sink surely?

[KidKruger]

Yeah, with the term ?solved? clearly being used generously !

I think what?s actually possible to back-up where depends on the pipe layout and gravity, possible though.

I hope the landlord or his agents are studying the issue (see what I did there) as closely as we are !