Water works for pretty Herefordshire village

9:00am Monday 14th January 2013 in News

MORE than £500,000 will be spent on improving the waste water network in a picturesque Herefordshire village.

Welsh Water says the investment in Pembridge will also bring environmental benefits to the village which is on the Black and White trail popular with tourists.

The scheme includes upgrading the waste network on Bridge Street between Parsons Walk and Curl View which will increase its capacity during wet weather.

Work will start on January 21 and is expected to take nine weeks to complete.

Bridge Street will be closed for three weeks between February 11 and March 1 while temporary traffic lights will be installed for the majority of the work.

Welsh Water’s capital delivery manager Martin Kilroy, said: “We will try to get the job completed as quickly as possible.”

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fordshire77 says...
12:19pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Get the job done as quickly as possable, 9 weeks means 9 weeks, im betting it will be the FULL 9 weeks to get the job done! pleanty of shovel leaning will take place too :)

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mizza21 says...
2:52pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Shovel leaning is an important part of the job. As is smoking fags, reading the paper in the van and sitting in the portaloo.
Still, at the end of the work the villagers' "Richard the Thirds" will get to the sea much quicker so they should be well chuffed with that.

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bobby47 says...
3:51pm Mon 14 Jan 13

It's bloody typical! Lean on your shovel, just for a moment, a brief snapshot in time and the bloody criticism showers down on you.
Well I'll be damned if I sit back and let good men and women, both sexes are capable of shovelling, get a kicking simply because they reached a point of boredom or tiredness and decided to stop excavating the earth and lean on their shovels.
Most of you have no idea just how mind numbing shovelling earth from one point to another can be. Many's a time during my burrowing and digging I've suddenly stopped, leant on my shovel and screamed, 'Good grief Im exhausted. I'll have a moment and lean on this shovel'.
Bloody society! No bloody tolerance to a man or a woman leaning on their shovel. It's getting to the stage where you can't do anything without someone having a pop at you simply for leaning on your shovel.
It's physically impossible to shift ten ton of earth from one place to another and not feel compelled to lean on your shovel and anyone who says otherwise is a bloody embellisher and no friend of mine.

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dippyhippy says...
4:01pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Aha! King Bobby,nobody knows more about shovelling than you - have they not read your book,"Digging for Studmarsh in the wrong place"? Why,if my memory serves me well,in chapter 22,you covered the topic of "shovel fatigue"in great detail.I wish other posters would do a little research before sharing their thoughts!!( And just for the benefit of anyone who doesn't realise it,that was an attempt at humour,not a put down!!)
I had hoped to reduce my posting activity this year,its proving hard with such tempting offers on the table!!

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bobby47 says...
4:27pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Happy New Year dippy and my warmest regards to Mizza and Fordshire.

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dippyhippy says...
4:34pm Mon 14 Jan 13

And a Happy New Year to you as well Bobby! I know Mizza and Fordshire will take things as they are meant - they have a sense of humour!! A few of the posters that have appeared on here recently, don't always seem to appreciate the in-ane/in-sane comments that have frequented this forum for so long!! Humour is a must,without it we would all be barking!!

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Gnomie says...
4:52pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Looks as though you have to win a beauty contest before Welsh Water gets its cheque book out. While I've nothing against the inhabitants of Pembridge or the tourists who visit it, Lea - which admittedly is not quite so pretty - is in dire need of an upgraded waste water network too. Both the sewers and the pumping station are wholly inadequate with local residents periodically treated to eruptions of raw sewage. The drains are no better. They too require extensive upgrading, not to mention proper maintenance, to prevent a repetition of the extensive surface water flooding we suffered in November. Time Herefordshire Council got its cheque book out too, or is it going to keep treating us as second-class citizens? Perhaps our local councillor Harry Bramer would care to comment?

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dippyhippy says...
5:02pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Hello Gnomie! I have a feeling that you will have a long wait for a comment from Mr.Bramer!! Love the optimism though!! Flooding,pot holes ,raw sewage running amok.....these aren't important issues for our dear council leaders,they have much more important things to scratch their heads about,and spend our money on....."Here we can" signs,bottled water,their own magazine-telling us how much they do for us,etc etc etc. The list goes on.No,I am afraid you will have a long wait for raw sewage to make it ito the top of the list!!!

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Gnomie says...
5:18pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Hello dippyhippy! I fear you are right, but having seen neighbours homes devastated by flooding everybody around here has got to just keep on fighting until the problem is sorted. It's going to be a long battle I suspect but a growing number of Lea villagers who are sick to death of the inadequate response of Welsh Water and the county council to the difficulties they face are up for it!

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dippyhippy says...
5:40pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Bravo Gnomie!! Welcome to The Peasents Revolt!! The tide will turn,I can feel it in my water - I daresay you are used to that with your sewarage problems!!

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bobby47 says...
6:20pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Gnomic, You'll note that my dear friend Dippy is the optimist of our band of ranters and ravers.
Let me deliver you my little slice of perspective which is based upon my time served as an HT Poster.
By all means look forward to a time when you, your family and your neighbourhood isn't affected by human urine and the accompanying excrement.
This in my view is a more than reasonable ambition for you, your kin and your community and through the decades ahead of you, you'd do we'll to cling to that desire. But, and it saddens me to burst your bubble of hope, you may have to face the fact that this Council may not come to your aid any time soon.
It may well be that the smell of urine and excrement may become an accepted part of your daily life for many years to come.
My very warmest regards to you, your family and your suffering community.

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mizza21 says...
9:40am Tue 15 Jan 13

At least the villagers have mains drainage.
We are so far out in the sticks we have an air bog. (Thats where your commode empties straight out into the moat and from your "throne" you can look down and inspect your business as it makes "splash down" in the aforementioned moat.)
The bloody council is to blame for this of course. If there was proper regulation my landlord would have to install a proper outside privvy.

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fordshire77 says...
1:05pm Tue 15 Jan 13

In case anyone is interested the "Pretty village" won gold last year in the village in bloom awards......its quite obvious to me that the news of the award hasn’t reached HC or they would want to weigh it in to the guy in maylord orchards….ops me and my mouth!

New Year wishies to you King bobby47 and all other mad hatters!

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dippyhippy says...
2:07pm Wed 16 Jan 13

Just a thought,but aren't welsh water partnered up with the charity Water Aid?? Helpjng to provide fresh water and sanitation to third world countries?? Maybe,Gnomie,you would have more luck approaching the charity,they could then get welsh water to do the work!! Not that I am saying Herefordshire is a becoming a third world country..........jus
t thinking outside the box,as they say!

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