Tap water setback

'Tap water setback' was the Citizen's headline today - it looks like it will be Tuesday at the earliest before we can drink water again from the taps. However the news is that the water is now safe to drink if we boil it - read more here.

Severn Trent have also admitted that there had been no contingency plans in place to cope with a flooding crisis of this kind. I have to say I am disturbed by this as there is evidence to suggest serious flooding was likely to occur at some point - not to have protected at the very least electricity substations and Mythe water treatment plant is extreme negligence.

Meanwhile see here Greg Dance, Whiteshill and Ruscombe Parish councillor get a mention in The Times re the floods.