Sunday 26th January 2014
The scene at the eastern end of Woodcock Road,
near Boreham Crossroads, Warminster,
this morning, as there is yet another repeat
of the drain covers lifting after heavy rain.
It seems that some people who live at Woodcock Road
and the adjacent housing estates of St. George’s Close
and Boreham Field and The Dene, are none to
careful about flushing chip fat and baby wipes down
the toilet, making for a problem elsewhere
when heavy rainfall combines to raise the covers.
Raw sewage washes out on to the pavement.
This is a scene witnessed too many times to mention
in the Boreham Crossroads area.
One Boreham resident, who has lived here 20 years,
has told us the drains in his garden used to open up
in this way, pouring sewage out on to his property.
His situation was only rectified when the drains
closest to him were fitted with non-return valves.
The problem now occurs further up the network
at the lower end of Woodcock Road and at Boreham Road
either side of Boreham Crossroads.
Residents are well and truly fed-up with the problem
with the drains at Boreham Crossroads and say
its high time the matter was resolved in full.
Boreham and Bishopstrow residents are
genuinely concerned that the proposed building
of houses on nearby Spurt Mead will only
add to this disgusting problem.