Large rainwater pool alongside pavement.
Reported in the Pavements/footpaths category anonymously at 21:02, Wed 24 February 2010
Sent to Enfield Borough Council 2 minutes later
During periods of heavy rain and snow, water collects in a large pool at the junction of Wellington Road and Private Road outside Rowley Court, 32 Wellington Road. The water should drain away along a gutter in Private Road but tree roots appear to have blocked this gutter. Sometimes vehicles are driven at speed along Wellington Road. When a speeding vehicle goes through the pool any person walking on the pavement there would be drenched by the spray of water thrown up. The gutter needs to be re-cut.
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After the pool eventaully dried up it could be seen that there isd a drain outside No. 32. It is this drain that is blocked.
Until there is another period of heavy rain we will not know whether this blockage has been cleared.
A heavy shower some weeks ago caused the drain to flood the raodway for a short time. Presumably the drain is only partially blocked.
Over the past couple of weeks Wellington Road has been dug-up a little south of the blocked drain. It might be that this work related to the blockage. Only time will tell.
It was apparent in a recent downpour that the drain remains partially blocked. The pool forms during the downpour, but clears over the following few hours.
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