Anyone who has tried to drive through Tenbury Wells in recent days can't help but notice that once again, three way temporary traffic lights have led to long delays. Well the bad news is that temporary traffic lights are going to feature locally quite a lot this summer. The good news is that it is all in a good cause.
This week two more burst pipes are due to be located and fixed, then the following drainage work is to be carried out.
1. Church Street: 4 -6 extra road gullies to be installed and linked to the foul sewer. Also the pavement level is to be raised in various areas.
2. Teme Street (Kyre Bridge End): 5 extra road gullies to be installed and a new pipe run into the Kyre Brook.
3. Bog Lane: The existing 450mm pipe that links the 750mm pipe to the 375mm pipe is to be supplemented with an additional 450mm pipe, then the 375mm pipe is to be removed and replaced by two 450mm pipes thereby giving a 59% increase in capacity. (You couldn't make this stuff up!) No account has been taken off the likely increase in flow associated with the proposed development opposite the school.
4. Bromyard Road; 6 extra road gullies to be installed (where the run off from the high school hits the road) and a pipe laid to carry the water down to the Kyre Brook.
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We'll now wait with interest especially over the 5 new gullies in Teme Street by the Kyre Bridge. These will EMPTY into the Kyre or will the water come back up and empty the Kyre into Teme Street at the next flood....mmmm(wonders)
I wondered that. Usually that corner floods when water flows from Kyre Brook into Teme Street so if the drains empty into Kyre Brook (which is the plan) how will that help?
1. Church Street. Pouring all this storm water into the foul drain increases the risk of sewage flooding out of the system there or elsewhere.
2. The flash flooding at this end of town is caused by drainage problems elsewhere, such as Bog Lane....
3....so if this work will 'fix' the Bog Lane problem, why put extra drains at the Kyre Brook end of Teme St? Presumably these drains will have one-way valves?
4. Bringing this extra water (and the Bog Lane water) more quickly into the Kyre Brook will increase the risk of flooding in Tenbury.
I suppose this is why we leave these decisions to experts at County Hall as solutions often defy logic. They must have thought about this. (mustn't they)
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