Friday, November 15, 2024

Clear the way! Council urges drivers not to block its drain cleaning efforts

Lincolnshire County Council is urging road users who park on roads and footpaths to take heed of essential drain cleaning notices after it emerged that 2,500 gullies couldn’t be cleaned because notice signs were ignored.

Streets with vehicles parked up have meant that as many as 60% of the gullies on certain streets that needed cleaning were blocked by a parked vehicle that couldn’t be moved.

Cllr Richard Davies, executive member for Highways said: “This is such an issue for us now that we need to address it in a public way and ask road users for their immediate help.

“As we have all seen in recent years, the issue of drainage is a very serious one and we desperately need access to gullies like this so that we can keep them in working order. As part of our need to get on with this essential cleaning and our messaging to everyone who parks on the street, we are using new temporary street signs to promote when we will be cleaning in a particular area where necessary.

“We appreciate that there will be a level of inconvenience in vehicle owners moving their vehicles when we need to clean these essential bits of the drainage system, but we really need to get to these gullies in particular.

“The size of the tanker that is needed to clean these gullies is about the same as an HGV, so the issue is immediately apparent when vehicles are parked up during cleaning schedules.

“Any assistance that drivers can give us in this respect would be a very real help. In a county as large as Lincolnshire, our crews have nearly 150,000 gullies to maintain and keep clear. We can’t carry out the preventative maintenance that we need to in some cases because of the 2,500 gullies that we couldn’t get to.

“This is currently having, and will go on to be, a huge impact on what we need to do to ensure that drainage maintenance is carried out and the impact from potential flooding threats are lessened.”

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