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| Flooding on Brewery Road |
Not the television programme featuring an Olympic medal winner
and a Tory MP (how do they find time for this sort of thing?) but the
experience many of us have had on Brewery Road in recent years.
Since 2012 an area between the entrance to Brewery Road car
park and the entrance to Kingswood Court has flooded after heavy or persistent
rain. As we have had a lot of both in
the last few months there has been a lot of splashing.
I have been on at the County Council to fix this flooding
for almost two years. There is a summary of some of my earlier efforts here.
Not only does the flooding cover the road and lead to pedestrians and cyclists getting splashed it is also over a pedestrian crossing.
The county’s minor works team spent 3 days trying to resolve
the problem last year. They gave up as
it was beyond their scope and passed the issue to the county council’s “wet
spots” team. It is yet to make to the
top of their action list, and can only have fallen further down that list with
recent flooding across the county.
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| Horsell Splash |
I am told the issue is that the water has nowhere to
go. Something is stopping it from
running away. I don’t doubt that this is
part of the problem but this flooding has only occurred since the road was
resurfaced.
The area between the car
park entrance and Kingswood Court is the worst affected by the flooding but there are other sections
along the road that now have puddles, where they never existed before – take a
look by the bus stop.
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| The road by the bus stop |
The county has promised to put up some flood warning signs
to slow down drivers and hopefully save pedestrians and cyclists from getting
soaked.
I am continuing to press for a proper solution that removes
the water and ends the Horsell Splash.
