The Water Tower

Lee-Over-Sand's water supply comes from the landowner, Guy Smith - our community is very lucky enough not to have to pay anything towards our water supply! This appears to be due to a covenant in our deeds referring back to the original sale of the plots stating that water was provided.

A part of this incumbent legacy water supply infrastructure is the water tower at the end of Wall Street. We've been getting increasingly concerned about the condition of the support structure for the water tower. With vehicles nearby and children who often play around it, Andy has expressed his concerns about it to me on numerous occasions.

As its in a highly exposed position, corrosion and rust has started to weaken the metal supports - as you can see from the photos below. This obviously means that as time goes on, without maintenance by the landowner (who provides the community's water supply) It could become dangerously unstable.

 
Its believed that the tower is there to provide adequate water pressure to properties on Beach Road, which are 2 metres higher than those in Wall Street, from where the supply originates - so this helps increase the usable pressure on the system. Unless Beach Road's supply is completely seperate from the tower, as our water supply in Wall Street is exactly 3 bar, I think it might also provide a head (boost) to our pressure, and its height would indicate - although turning it off would confirm it, the latter is a theory of mine.

Otherwise this could be the only water supply feed to Beach Road, a seperate stored water system, fed from Wall Street's supply, up and into the tank, then gravity boosted downwards with a pipe going across the seawall.


So theoretically - if the water is stored for Beach Road in this tank, then it shouldn't be drinkable.