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Sorry this is very after the event. I was away when you had meeting 7/12/06 , so this is really just for info.
Re: Floods, Campbell Road, 20th October 2006.
Spoke to Steve Smith (Oxford City Council Engineers Dept.). Dave Reeve also in attendance. He explained about the 2 new drains with non-return valves, at a lower level which we know have now been put in.
A number of residents explained that this was not necessary the solution. The current flooding from the park had not been caused by the brook overflowing at our end but that by a number of other factors, including heavy rain and overflow from the brook in the park. The water was not able to escape back into the brook, which had been free flowing and had the capacity to drain the water from the park. It was trapped in the park and the back gardens of the houses on the “Evens” side of the road. He acknowledged that he had not previously been aware of this. He agreed that a relatively inexpensive solution would be to put in some sluice gates at the higher (path) level – ideally where the council workers had set up their pumping equipment, on 20th. They would be locked but the sensible thing would be for residents to have keys, so that providing the brook was flowing and had the capacity to take the excess water, they could be opened. He also accepted that residents would also need keys to the park. Dave Reeve also agreed that this was a sensible solution.
Steve Smith also looked at the problems faced by residents on the “Odds” side of the road. He acknowledged that he hadn’t realised the extent of the problem and that he would need to find out more about the various problems – i.e. collapsed drains; rain water and sewage water pipes interconnected etc. We also raised issues of flood plains being built on – the school and the home for the elderly on Cornwallis Road – adding to the potential for problems in our street.
Phoned Steve Smith on 17th Nov 06. He said sluices were on order.
A know some people have asked Southern Gas Networks (SGN) about the work due to start 22nd Jan 07 and whether this has been coordinated with other utilities that might need to do work SGN state that their work will cause minimum disruption to road surface as they will insert new pipework into old.
Re: Other dates. I have some pictures of flooding taken on 29th June 05.
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