Some Flooding Needs Attention
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008We seem to have a bit of an issue with the rain.
The rainwater from the park seems to be overflowing onto the properties nearby.
I told the people who were creating the landscape for the park corner where this flooding is happening that the mound of hill that they were creating to help stop the flooding of water into the nearby hospital grounds would simply be collected and create an issue on these grounds.
I believed that they were not fixing the problem but moving it.
And my belief has manifested. Not that it’s a good belief to manifest.
Take a look below.
http://www.karavadra.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/city_view_flooding.flv
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I have 7 Comments to the above Post:
Comment By Bharat Karavadra at 4:24pm on Sep 9, 2008 (GMT/UTC) | Reply
Thank you to Hazel from Birmingham City Council for getting back so promptly to my email to publichealth@birmingham.gov.uk. I’m sorry I couldn’t take the telephone numbers of the appropriate departments that you mentioned. I hope to hear back from you tomorrow as you said.
Note: Now I’m back in front of the computer and ready, I’ve been trying to call you but you seem to be busy.
Comment By Bharat Karavadra at 12:45pm on Sep 10, 2008 (GMT/UTC) | Reply
Thanks Hazel for getting back to me with nthe contact details of the Parks Department. I’ve contacted them on 0121 464 8728 and left a message as they seemed to be busy.
Comment By Bharat Karavadra at 11:40am on Sep 11, 2008 (GMT/UTC) | Reply
I received a voicemail this morning from Birmingham City Council Parks Department and the lady said she had spoken to the Constituency Parks Manager and that the park has not been handed over by the developer (Coftons) to the Council.
However, she said that she has spoken to Andy Hogben who handles landscaping of new developments and that he would call me back.
Comment By Bharat Karavadra at 12:45pm on Sep 12, 2008 (GMT/UTC) | Reply
Well, Andrew did call back today and he said that he will be dealing with the matter and especially with Coftons as they have not handed over the park to the Council yet.
As I said to Andrew, when Coftons’ workmen where creating the mound of earth at the end of the park I told them that this won’t resolve the rainwater issue as it will simply collect at the bottom of the hill and that’s what seems to have happened. The hospital road is now protected, which I believe is why they were creating this mound of earth but the properties at City View are now at risk.
Anyway, I must thank you Andrew for calling back and taking some responsibility for the matter.
Comment By Bharat Karavadra at 7:29am on Sep 18, 2008 (GMT/UTC) | Reply
Andrew turned up yesterday together with a guy from Coftons. I was lucky to be their when they cam to have a look and had a chance to tell them about the issue and show the above video to them to demonstrate what was happening.
Andrew said that they would hopefully have a solution to the water buildup and overflow onto the properties.
Comment By Bharat Karavadra at 1:58pm on Sep 23, 2008 (GMT/UTC) | Reply
It seems that someone has created a mound of little stones to help stop the water flowing over.
As my wife considered, let’s hope it was the kids playing, as water will simply flow through these stones and this creation looks quite ghastly.
Comment By Bharat Karavadra at 1:57pm on Nov 13, 2008 (GMT/UTC) | Reply
Sorry that I haven’t updated this Post recently but here is the latest update.
I’ve just sent an email to Andrew Hogben about the issue as follows:
Hi Andrew,
With respect to the flooding issue that we reported at City View, Erdington, Birmingham.
Someone, I can only assume Coftons piled up stones on the verge with what I can only assume to be an attempt to stop the overflowing rainwater coming onto the public path and properties.
These stones are now seem to be recreation for the local children and are being thrown onto the path and to be frankly honest, do not and cannot stop the overflow of water. In addition they are an eye-sore.
I would appreciate your feedback.