| Topic: | Re:Re:Mayor Boris Johnson has condemned Thames Waters plan to use Barn Elms Playing Fields | |
| Posted by: | Roland Gilmore | |
| Date/Time: | 17/03/11 00:37:00 |
| Nick, In response to your first posting of the 16th March; If the flows in storm conditions exceed capacity by say 10% then interception of 10% of those flows in the form of Surface Water would cost £1.5Bn in round terms i.e. 10% of the £15Bn you quoted. Far less than the £5Bn you are talking about spending. In fact, if 30% were intercepted, it would still cost less than your current proposals and give a more environmentally secure and longer term fututure. The notion that it's too difficult is nonsense. When North Sea gas was piped into the country, mains were replaced nationally, rapidly and just about every home, office, hospital, school etc was connected. Of course there would be disruption. Anyone who uses London's roads sees that every day now. However, the outer London suburbs that forms by far the largest rain water catchment area we are addressing here, does not present the level of co-ordination and disruption presented by the relatively tiny area of Inner London. The more I am looking into this and learning about the TW proposals, the more I think TW are taking the easiest option for themselves and have managed to sway certain civil servants and politicians to their chosen view and not to the best solution. As I posted previously, OFWAT is not fit for purpose and the EA, in it'd various guises, has done nothing for decades. Why should we trust anyone to do with these bodies or Thames Water? Are you honestly saying that Thames Water have to be told to do something to rectify something they know is wrong? Surely that ammounts to corporate negligence. |