There was water coming out of the asphalt of a little street around the corner. That's not good! This was happening on a dry day, so it didn't look like sewage seeping through. I suspected it was drinking water. So I contacted Welsh Water. Nothing happened for a while, but then I got a text. It thanked me for my message, and warned about that doing something about it might take a long time. It warned, for instance, that if a road closure would be necessary, it could take twelve weeks to obtain permission for that. I could imagine one was indeed needed.
Almost two weeks later I got another text. I was warned about potential low water pressure. I was sure it was related. And indeed: the next time I went to work I saw the road had been closed. (No months of permission seeking going on here!) Someone was already warning people about it. It's a tiny road, but it does lead to a school, so I can imagine closing it significantly affects the school run. People would have to approach that school from the other side.
And something was indeed happening! When I got home later that day there was a hole in the road surface. It looked like I had been right! And it had been a leaking water mains. I was glad I had contributed to stopping that.
The next day I left for work there was activity there, and when I got home the hole in the surface had already been filled. There had been nothing happening these few weeks in the beginning, but after that, the water company seemed to have been very much on the ball! That is great. For a country with so much rainfall we seem to have surprisingly many water shortages. And I think one should never take Drinkwater for granted. Letting it just leak through the road is not a good idea!
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| A leak? |
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| Road closed, hole dug |
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| The hole |
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