Water leak from driveway

[AdamD]

No Our driveway is on a slope and so flows down to the road and I’ve noticed a leak from the concrete slab type manhole cover, not gushing but a steady flow so clearly leaking a lot of water. I can’t get the slab up without damaging it so want to know what my first option is to investigate, or is breaking the slab to get it up the best way?

 

Edited December 5, 2024 by AdamD

[AdamD]

[ProDave]

Is the manhole on your drive or the pavement?

 

It does not look like a sewer manhole cover, that type of concrete cover looks more like an old BT cable duct cover, and having seen inside a few, it would not surprise me in the least to find it is full of water.

 

If it's not on your drive, it is not your problem.

 

A picture of the whole of the slab might help and some context where on the drive or path it is.

[AdamD]

8 minutes ago, ProDave said:

Is the manhole on your drive or the pavement?

 

It does not look like a sewer manhole cover, that type of concrete cover looks more like an old BT cable duct cover, and having seen inside a few, it would not surprise me in the least to find it is full of water.

 

If it's not on your drive, it is not your problem.

 

A picture of the whole of the slab might help and some context where on the drive or path it is.

Concrete manhole slab is on our drive. See pic.

metal manhole cover just behind, I’ve lifted that and there’s no blockages and it’s running fine 

[Conor]

I'd contact your water/sewer provider and tell them there is a leak but you cant investigate and you don't know who owns the asset. Do you know where your water supply comes in? I think I can see your meter box just to the right? In that case your rising water could be a blocked storm sewer, that other MH could be your foul sewer.

Edited December 5, 2024 by Conor

[AdamD]

11 minutes ago, Conor said:

I'd contact your water/sewer provider and tell them there is a leak but you cant investigate and you don't know who owns the asset. Do you know where your water supply comes in? I think I can see your meter box just to the right? In that case your rising water could be a blocked storm sewer, that other MH could be your foul sewer.

Yeah I think I’ll call them back.

meter box is there correct, lifted it earlier and it was full of water, scooped it out to see it was still running even with the stop cock inside turned off

 

foul sewer - so may be worth contacting the sewerage provider?

[AdamD]

Got it sorted, new water pipe installed. Unfortunately it was most certainly a leak from our old pipe so no hope getting anything back from the water company. An annoying expense, but a necessary one.