Water main Stapleton Hall Road.

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Permalink Reply by Neil Le Milliere on December 19, 2021 at 1:42

The major water mains fail in Seven Sisters Road a couple of weeks ago was an example of how the new "better"  mains pipes have either not been laid correctly or, alternatively, are not up to the job. When I talked to one of the engineers (its taken almost two weeks to fix) I mentioned this and he grimaced and said he of course couldn't comment. The previous mains lasted many, many years and held the water at a much higher pressure but it seems the modern pipes can't even cope with the reduced pressure - we know its reduced pressure as when they did our roads around here a few years ago the pressure of our mains driven shower went down and when i queried this they admitted that the new mains pressure was indeed lower.

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