Veolia's engineers did a preliminary site visit yesterday, I showed them the manhole at the road junction, told them about the stopcock, and meter inside it, and also explained how Phillip Smith is happy to let us run the pipework in set-aside areas (5m) from the road.
They also saw the water tower during their visit, before going over to Beach Road.
This visit was to give full details and technical info to Martin Henderson, Head of Operations of Veolia Water who is visiting tomorrow (Friday 22nd July 2010) at 3pm at the junction of Wall Street to inform us of our options.
I'll update everyone on the details after the meeting.
UPDATE: Friday 22nd July 2010
After meeting with Veolia's head of operations, Martin Henderson, he explained that the figure for them supplying water to Lee-Over-Sands is approximately £100,000.
This would be a cost of £8000 per household should the amount be split between all 34 properties and covers the cost of running and installing a new main to each household.
Obviously this is out of most people's budgets, so we discussed our options with regards to installing our own pipe which new users would "buy into" and have shares of as previously suggested until such a time that all properties are on the system - after which we could hand over responsibility of maintenance and ownership of the pipe to the water company.
Cost of the supply pipe itself would be approx £6000, Veolia would be happy to commission and test the pipe after we lay it - so this is one way we can reduce costs. So digging is the main cost after the pipe itself.
Frank (No11 & No 9 Wall Street) is investigating costs of running our own pipe.
If we do things this way, then there will be a shared cost for joining and testing the supply pipe, then an individual per household cost of between £350 and £700 to connect up each house's boundary - so householders will need to run their own pipes into their homes too.
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