Water Supply - Wall Street - changeover date announced for new main

Guy Smith has advised residents that they will be put onto his new water main supply on Monday 4th of July as most of the work on the main route along Lee-Wick Lane towards Beach Road and pipework to each home in Wall Street is now in place - and awaiting Veolia's inspection/chlorination to sanitise it before use.

Residents will have to change their homes over to use the new incoming pipes on Monday, when the old existing pipe network installed by his father Andrew Smith (almost 40 years ago) will be disconnected. A plumber will be on-hand all day in Wall Street if things go to plan date-wise to help any residents connect who cannot do it themselves or have difficulties.

The new water supply connection as before will be owned by Smith's Farms - the hope is that residents will agree to become a billing entity (or that someone will take on the individual responsibility personally for the billing and subsequently charge residents based on usage via the meters which will be installed on the new pipe where it enters each property's land). Guy also hopes that in the long run his efforts at doing the pipework installation to Veolia "spec" will result in the company eventually adopting the system, which in the long run could remove the need for shared billing - so individual homeowners are billed by the water company either at a fixed annual rate or based on their water meter reading.

As part of agreeing to a shared billing system for the houses on the landward side of the sea wall, there are still related issues to resolve with regards to easements (access to land to maintain the pipe) which Smith's Farms has come up with some good solutions to - which were proposed in a recent letter to all householders, along with a map showing the work done and Guy's proposals for the eventual changeover to the new supply.

With this in mind I would advise that all residents soon need to look into addressing the legal issues with regard to this and getting a written agreement from Smith's Farms which outlines and guarantees future access/usage with regards to maintenance before they hand over their £1000 per property contributions for the new supply pipework/work that Smith's Farms has asked for.

UPDATE: Guy's letter to residents is below for those residents who might not have seen it:
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