No, dear reader, the station puddle has not been fixed

by Prue Bray on 4 December, 2009

Those of you who know Winnersh will know that when it rains hard a large puddle forms in the road by the station ticket office.   When I say “a large puddle” I mean a mini-pond which stretches more than halfway across the road and is deep enough to lap over the kerb onto the pavement.  It is of sufficient size for my fellow-Lib Dem ward councillor to have suggested we purchase a fishing gnome for it.  And it has been much in evidence since the beginning of November, due to us having rather a lot of rain (don’t tell me you hadn’t noticed).

This week I got very excited because some men turned up and dug a hole right where the puddle forms.  But no, they were not there to fix the surface water drains.  They were there to connect some new houses opposite into the water system. 

On the second day of digging they had to call out the emergency drainage people because their hole had been flooded out with surface water……

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