Fixed
Floodwater from field channelled onto the road
Reported in the Roads/highways category anonymously at 00:25, Tue 3 April 2018
Sent to Norfolk County Council 5 minutes later. FixMyStreet ref: 1265712.
Stoke Road, between its junction with the A134 and Boughton village. The field beside the road often floods following rainfall. A channel has now been cut into the verge to allow this water to discharge on to the road. It flows across the road and into a ditch that appears unable to cope with the volume of water. This flooding of the road is not pleasant for car users and makes the road impassable to pedestrians and cyclists who are not equipped to navigate running water. Clearly the field needs to be drained, but I am not sure that dumping the excess water onto the public road is the right way to go about it. The ditch that brings water from Boughton has also been channelled to allow the water with which it cannot cope to escape on to the road. Seems that some proper drainage is needed here.
Updates
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We are pleased to advise that your enquiry ENQ-197365-N8M4T8 has been updated.
Highways Maintenance: Drainage & Flooding – Not Sewage. Received: 03/04/2018 10:48:54 Location: BOUGHTON ROAD STOKE FERRY
New Status: We are investigating the problem - Defects are investigated by local teams as soon as possible and, if action is required, prioritised for repair taking into account the defect size, location and usage of the road or path in question.
Steve Thompson Customer Service Assistant Customer Service Centre Norfolk County Council Tel: 0344 800 8020 Email: highways@norfolk.gov.uk
Posted anonymously at 13:22, Tue 3 April 2018
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04 04 18
From NCC:
We are pleased to advise that your enquiry ENQ-197365-N8M4T8 has been updated.
Highways Maintenance: Drainage & Flooding – Not Sewage. Received: 03/04/2018 10:48:54 Location: BOUGHTON ROAD STOKE FERRY
New Status: No action has been taken at this time but we will continue to monitor the problem -We have assessed that the defect does not currently meet our intervention criteria. We will continue to monitor as part of normal scheduled inspections.
Customer Service Team Norfolk County Council --
Posted anonymously at 03:35, Thu 5 April 2018
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04 04 18
It seems that NCC consider it perfectly acceptable for a landowner to use the public highway as a part of his own drainage system. Really nice for the rest of us who will have to pay through our taxes for the damage this is causing.
Posted anonymously at 03:37, Thu 5 April 2018
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21 04 18.
Eventually the farmer ploughed that field and the water drained away. The highway is no longer being used to drain his surface water, but no thanks to the lazy and incompetent highways dept of NCC.
Watch for its return next winter!
State changed to: Fixed
Posted anonymously at 03:10, Sat 21 April 2018
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