London floods

Mains are shit to be honest dealing with more than usual at the moment.

This winter has not been bad in comparision to 2010 for instance but the network is in disarray.

Is the temperature flipping from mild to cold then back again a factor?

Or not so much as the pipes are underground?

We had no water all of yesterday due to the main blowing in SE23, it happens so regularly that we keep a fairly large stock of bottled water on hand now but it was still very annoying.

There was talk of sending warmer water straight into the network but im yet to be convinced by this theory. Intrigued to see the paper.

Some.pipes are deeper than others
This is probably built over time and the pipe has either fractured or the joint has given way. Could have been a surge was in the network from a pumping station. Not sure. If a cutout repair is done then a ndta can be done on the old pipe

Upper st is having a new pipe put it. Manage to see it as i went past on thursday am

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It's unbelievable what's happening at the moment:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/stoke-newington-flooding-high-street-submerged-as-third-flood-in-a-week-hits-london-a3417516.html

I rode through that exact spot late last night. /csb

Hopefully it will clear by tomorrow so i can get in the office

Funnily enough we were in the prcess of proving which main it was on. Too late in this case

There seems to talk be the Blackheath one might have been a JCB doing roadworks and fracturing the main; there were pallets of bottled water dumped at the junction at lunchtime when I went shopping.

Yes seems.confirmed it was a 3rd party who hit the main. The loss adjusters have been busy this december

Camberwell New Road reports of a mains bust, no pictures or other info except a travel warning.

http://cdn.jambuster.london/index.html?id=145466

And from the amount of water bubbling up through the road at junction of Harper Road/New Kent Road this morning there's one gone there too.

Hang on a minute - another Lee Road flood?!

Yup, saw this on Saturday. Luckily my commute goes in between Stoke Newington high street and Essex Road, which is still closed.

For tracking sake, Powerscroft Road in Hackney was shut last week for a burst water main. Needed resurfacing as it lifted the road surface and caused a road closure. No flooding.

Yes, note not Lee High Road, very near it. The main on Lee HIgh Road has been repaired and is awaiting to come back into service

Lets hope some action is taken from the investigation - the circumstance in this one is ridiculous and point blank stupidity

Meanwhile, not in London:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/12/christmas-dinner-fatbergs-raise-flood-risk-say-water-companies

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/how-victims-of-a-spate-of-floods-in-london-rebuilt-their-lives-in-time-for-christmas-a3427286.html

Always interesting having a man on the inside with threads like these, it's good to get (informed) speculation and facts from someone who knows what's going on. :)

Oddly enough, this article doesn't even mention the Islington incident:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/thames-water-burst-mains-surge-by-1000-after-chaotic-winter-for-londoners-a3538386.html

I was wondering if anyone had got torrentialised (it were fairly mild oop Norf London), so here you go:

http://www.standard.co.uk/standard-home/weather/london-weather-commuters-set-for-rush-hour-chaos-as-rain-batters-capital-a3555766.html

Wallington again, where the street dips very deep under the railway bridge, but also places like Gants Hill.

Ruislip last week, now Brixton Hill:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/brixton-hill-flood-huge-crack-opens-up-in-road-as-burst-water-main-causes-flooding-a3597221.html

The roads around this were (unsurprisingly) gridlocked this morning.

It seems to be under control now and suspect know which main has gone. Saying that, I have a feeling BH will be closed at least until tomorrow. Tarmac did lift along the seam of where there tarmac'd the lanes separately.

It seems that flood season is upon us.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/harrow-flooding-streets-in-northwest-london-plunged-underwater-by-burst-water-main-a3666716.html

There was also another one a few weeks ago.

One I didn't see because there was no Standard story on it--it doesn't look as if it was too major. City Road probably has well-maintained drainage, being wide and on the Inner Ring Road. musa can probably tell us whether that's the case.

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/burst-water-main-closes-city-road-near-old-street-roundabout-1-5361357

Puts the London 'floods' to shame

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/24/paris-flooding-alert-rising-seine-transport-disruption