East Dulwich On The Water!

[Zak]

How long will it take Thames Water to sort out the small river flowing down Lordship Lane from around North Cross Road towards Goose Green? 
Get ready for some serious road works and disruption.

[Jellybeanz]

I reported it when it first sprang up and found it really unusual they were so slow.. tho I think they've changed their reporting systems and possibly computer systems and admin staff side which would explain the delay. To be honest I find it so SO rubbish that they just mend leaks when they spring up and the endless works never seem to be lasting. It was only last year they did repairs lasting many months in that part of Lordship Lane. Yet we all now have water meters and are charged ridiculous amounts for poor services. I'd renationalise if I had my way. 

[Zak]

Yes, it would be great to see them nationalised.

Along with the other water companies they seem to have a great business model:

-submit a 5 year plan to the regulator asking for yearly price increases to cover the cost of improving the infrastructure and get them to approve it

- carry on paying handsome dividends to shareholders and eye watering salaries to senior executives 

- fail to achieve the infrastructure targets at the end of the five years, make some excuses and draw up the next plan

Magic! 
 

 

[bob]

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[Jenijenjen]

Huge fast flowing burst waterman outside Harris's Girls School extending some way into Peckham Rye Park. Wear your wellies

Edit: probably a burst sewer pipe

Edited January 21, 2025 by Jenijenjen

[Jellybeanz]

I've asked Ellie Reeves local MP to contact Thames Water to ask what they're playing at. Now very hazardous for anyone with mobility issues. Ridiculous and dangerous, like a stream running down Lordship lane including the pavement. 

[CPR Dave]

I thought I saw some TW workmen there when it first happened last weekend but maybe it's too big for them to fix and they can't switch the mains off there without shutting all the businesses down.

[Jellybeanz]

Finally mended! I wonder if Ellie Reeves contacting Thames Water helped...

[CPR Dave]

Did she?

[bonaome]

Our water bill is a small fraction of what is was pre-meter.

Strongly support renationalisation. 

[Earl Aelfheah]

Thames water digging up the same bit of road near junction of Lordship Lane and Heber for (I think) the third time?! I don’t get why they can’t fix it once. 

[Guest]

What, bodge it and Scarper are back, are they. They have to find someway of charging customers exorbitant costs for supplying and disposing of waste water, this is part of that exercise. How many times can we dig up and pretend to fix the same leak? Answers on a postcard to the Chief Exec, Thames Water Utilities. 

[Huggers]

Today Peckham Rye, the concrete path that crosses it 

Edited January 28, 2025 by Huggers