Drains on a unadopted road

[andpartington]

A friend has a house on a un metalled road that is not adopted by the council no streetlights ect but it does have drains in the rough gravel road.

Anyway today I finished off some repairs to his front path was hosing down and noticed the grid outside his house was over flowing so he asked me to have a look at it (it has been doing this for years) I dugout a 300mm of sh!t only to find that there was a load of what seems to be concrete but might just be gravel and cement mixer cleanings its resisted my spade though

The other drains on the street appear to be 600mm deeper than this layer It was getting late and I was fed up at this point. So I slammed the lid and said “leave it with me� ':D'

So if he rings the council and says the drain is over flowing will they:

A say ok we be along in the next 6 years sort of thing
Or
B sodoff it’s a unadopted road sort it yourself
or???????

If anyone is still reading after all that drivel

Thank you

Andy

[Dave_L]

They'll wash their hands of it......

[matt h]

who is his water authority? if drainage is outside his boundary, its their part of ship. Had this problem at sheet near petersfield. Only problem was that the road had just become adopted, and a drain had collapsed thanks to the wonderful subcontactors of ntl. It turned out the drain was run to the sewer of the local water authority, but was not on their map(The previous owner of the property had dug it all himself, and done a grand job, but as the pipe was not on their map the water authority(southern) wouldnt touch it.That's despite the fact that rawsewage was spilling into the stream which ran alongside the road... the local council agreed to allow me to dig it out and repair/ makegood without a road closure order as the traffic was supposed to be light. I t was stop start all f,in day, but at least the job got done.After we'd finished the water authority agreed to adopt the pipe onto their system... bloody typical. It only took ntl 3 months to pay up n all