Industrial waste
Reported by iPhone anonymously at 11:45, Tue 26 January 2010
Sent to Central Bedfordshire Council 4 minutes later
Many years ago, the cast iron manhole cover here broke, and fell into the manhole leaving a major safety hazard. Somebody put a paving slab over the hole as a temporary measure.
Then the paving slab broke and fell into the hole. Somebody else put a sheet of plywood over the hole as a temporary measure.
Eventually, somebody organised to get the manhole fixed. A contractor came and replaced the entire manhole, pulling the broken slab and cast iron cover out.
Unfortunately, this contractor left the plywood, the broken paving slab, and the broken cast iron cover lying on the ground. Isn't this stuff industrial waste? Weren't they committing an offence by not taking it away? Anyway, can someone please come and clear it up? Plus, in the bushes just behind the manhole, there is a section of plastic pipe and at least one road cone, all dumped. I don't know where they came from, but can someone take them away too, please?
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Bed council sent me an email saying that this was not a priority, winter causing some problems, but that someone would go and look at it and fill in a report within 5 days. They gave me instructions to view the report online, but that didn't work, because the online report-viewing tool requires that they know my postcode, but I hadn't told them my postcode, only the postcode of the place to be fixed.
When the fixmystreet reminder came in, I emailed the council, and they said that nobody had, in fact, updated the report on the problem. I presume that this is contrary to their own policy. They have "requested an update from the HighWays Area Technician".
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