Opinions please on this quote for substructure & drains.

[kandgmitchell]

My brother works for Anglian Water maintaining the sort of small sewerage works that service lots of the small towns and villages. The flow rates through some of these during the increasingly heavy rain falls are well above the capacity of the works to cope with.The rain water is getting in to the system from somewhere and as he put it, if we don't discharge in an orderly manner the works will just flood and you'll be stepping in it anyway.....

 

That's not to say nothing is being done, he was telling me about an enormous underground holding tank AW is building at one of his town works, to act as a buffer when heavy rain occurs but the moral of the story is not to connect your rainwater discharge to the foul system.

[Dave Jones]

they need to start spending on upgrading the network. trebling the sizes of pipes etc. They charge enough for new connections and then just pocket the cash and do nothing.

 

keep fining them heavily until the message is received.