The good news is that bottled water can now be got locally at Randwick Scout Hut and Whiteshill Village Hall: free to local residents - and first bowser arrives but not to a listed site?!Photos: Whiteshill Village Hall, Randwick Scout Hut and the bowser at Double Spout, Ruscombe
The Whiteshill Village Hall being visible on the main road is doing vigourous trade and already has had a lorry top up supplies - David Drew MP visited there this morning to help deliveries to less able. The Randwick site however is turning over very slowly - but they did note they have an outside tap - metered but working and would let people fill up limited amounts. Both sites are both meant to be there until 5 and open each day while supplies last.
As for bowsers? Well I'm told none are in Whiteshill and I didn't see any but I did discover one at Double Spout on the Ruscombe Road. Not sure why it is there as this was not one of the sites listed by Severn Trent (see earlier blog) - and it's not getting much use. As for the Randwick bowsers (Carpenters Arms and Vine Tree) they apparently weren't there this morning: are they now?Recycle your plastic water bottles? Hundreds of thousands of extra plastic bottles have been used to distribute water so the District have arranged for special recycling facilities to be made available for these extra bottles. The following plastic water bottle recycling banks are the nearest to us and will be open from 3.30pm today:
- Sainsbury's Dudbridge
- Tesco Stratford Rd
- London Road Car Park
1 comment:
Sent to BBC Radio Gloucestershire this morning.
Sir
From a news report this morning on your station we hear that water bills will probably rise to prevent disasters in future. I don't mind this as the infrastructure is needing it to cope with the effects caused by climate change. But I do mind it if executives at Severn Trent Water at the same time award themselves huge pay and other bonuses as those are usually linked to "performance" and clearly the companies performance with water distribution is apallingly inefficient and consistantly so.
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