The Brixton Hill River

[twistedAM]

Anyone been up/down the hill this morning?
Burst water pipe at junction with Jebb Avenue and the road is cracked just like an earthquake. So much water it's impossible to cross the road.
Quite amazing.
Think it'll be closed for quite some time as the road is broken up due to the pressure of water.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Anyone been up/down the hill this morning?
Burst water pipe at junction with Jebb Avenue and the road is cracked just like an earthquake. So much water it's impossible to cross the road.
Quite amazing.
Think it'll be closed for quite some time as the road is broken up due to the pressure of water.

Oh fucking hell. Not again.

Wasn't there when I went to work this morning, but it happened a couple of years ago outside of Renton Close. Total chaos

 

[twistedAM]

I think it spouted around 11am; Blenheim Gardens unaffected
well except for traffice being diverted thru there

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Anyone been up/down the hill this morning?
Burst water pipe at junction with Jebb Avenue and the road is cracked just like an earthquake. So much water it's impossible to cross the road.
Quite amazing.
Think it'll be closed for quite some time as the road is broken up due to the pressure of water.

It's bad enough with all the roadworks on every single drain cover on the Hill as it is. This is gonna cause total chaos

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I think it spouted around 11am; Blenheim Gardens unaffected
well except for traffice being diverted thru there

Traffic being diverted through Blenheim?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Fuckety fuckety fuck fuck From BBC website

A23 BRIXTON HILL

BOTH WAYS BETWEEN LAMBERT ROAD AND DUMBARTON ROAD ROAD CLOSED DUE TO BURST WATER MAIN AND FLOODING

WATER IS GUSHING UP THROUGH CRACKS IN THE ROAD. SOURCE : CCTV IMAGE.


That means more walking in this sodding weather

 

[twistedAM]

I'll pop out in an hour or so and see what it's like. There's a huge crack right in the middle of the road between Elm Park and Jebb Ave - where they've installed a handy gang plank to cross the road.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'll pop out in an hour or so and see what it's like. There's a huge crack right in the middle of the road between Elm Park and Jebb Ave - where they've installed a handy gang plank to cross the road.

well I've rung himself (about 1 hour ago) and told him to look out window. He said there's no water and there's no traffic.

How kind of them to put a gang plank between my road and b/f's

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Oh no. This is getting worse. I'm gonna have to walk to and from tube - almost. Latest from the BBC.

A23 BRIXTON HILL

BOTH WAYS BETWEEN A204 ST MATTHEW'S ROAD AND DUMBARTON ROAD

ROAD CLOSED DUE TO BURST WATER MAIN AND FLOODING

WATER HAS BROKEN UP THE ROAD SURFACE - CLOSED UNTIL AT LEAST THE WEEKEND. SOURCE : CCTV IMAGE

 

[dogmatique]

Fantastic. It took 45 minutes to get down the hill this morning as it is... Hmm. Train from Victoria to Streatham Hill. Ughh.

 

[ChrisFilter]

wassit like walking up the hill?

 

[Donna Ferentes]

 

[dogmatique]

This must have something to do with the works that have been going on down the Hill to the resevoir behind the George...

"Left a bit Frank, no use the pickaxe... no... not the mains!"

Typical.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This must have something to do with the works that have been going on down the Hill to the resevoir behind the George...

"Left a bit Frank, no use the pickaxe... no... not the mains!"

Typical.

Thought it was Jebb Avenue/Elm Park not Waterworks Road? Or is it some kind of knock-on effect?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

wassit like walking up the hill?

Hard on the legs

 

[Pie 1]

This must have something to do with the works that have been going on down the Hill to the resevoir behind the George...

Probably the temperature TBH.
For once, human fuckwittery might not be the cause.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Latest from BBC. Closed even further now, no longer Dumbarton Road but Christchurch Road

A23 BRIXTON HILL

BOTH WAYS BETWEEN A204 ST MATTHEW'S ROAD AND A205 CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (SOUTH CIRCULAR ROAD) ROAD CLOSED DUE TO BURST WATER MAIN AND FLOODING

WATER HAS BROKEN UP THE ROAD SURFACE - CLOSED UNTIL AT LEAST THE WEEKEND. SOURCE : CCTV IMAGE.

 

[dogmatique]

Probably the temperature TBH.
For once, human fuckwittery might not be the cause.

Hmm. Contributary negligence... There's been some pipework going on down the hill in the last week - they've dug up the mains at intervals down the hill and left them exposed, and there's something major being done going into Waterworks Road - surely it can't be a coincidence.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Hmm. Contributary negligence... There's been some pipework going on down the hill in the last week - they've dug up the mains at intervals down the hill and left them exposed, and there's something major being done going into Waterworks Road - surely it can't be a coincidence.

All that stuff on the Hill is to do with the drain covers I think. Saw some last week, looked like they were re-tarmacing all round the drain covers. They did the other side, now they're doing this side

 

[dogmatique]

No, no, no. I must blame someone.

Erm... I'm sure I saw Valerie Shawcross wrecklessly in control of a jackhammer earlier...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

No, no, no. I must blame someone.

Erm... I'm sure I saw Valerie Shawcross wrecklessly in control of a jackhammer earlier...

Well, blame erm, the traffic. If the traffic wasn't so heavy it wouldn't weigh down on the tarmac and the tarmac wouldn't split the pipes.

Just made that one up

 

[twistedAM]

i think it was due to the weather...seems the junction has a kinda junction of pipes underground and when the tributary pipes freeze then the main pipe gets a lot of pressure on it and erupts through the road surface. Seems the fuckwits at play here are the civil engineers.
Anyway the hill looks nice as the road surface got a nice flushing and there's no traffic to negotiate while crossing the road.
the campaign to pedestrianise Brixton Hill starts here. Hell we could plant trees and rename it SW9 Boulevard (with toll gates at the north side of course )

 

[linerider]

if it freezes over during the night we could set up a bobsleigh run

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Hell we could plant trees and rename it SW9 Boulevard

Just had him on the phone. He said all the cars are coming up Elm Park and trying to get on the Hill and of course they can't, so there's a load of cars trying to reverse down Elm Park. Said there was police there but they obviously haven't had the common sense to close the top end of Elm Park off. Cars are still able to get onto the Hill via Endymion Road though

 

[hayduke]

if it freezes over during the night we could set up a bobsleigh run

Aye that would be RAD. I'm going snowboarding on Saturday so could do with a bit of practise

 

[denialworks4me]

shit i have to drive from acton with all the closures on the way then thru this and get just past hobgoblin where i live......... what a long night it will be in the car

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

shit i have to drive from acton with all the closures on the way then thru this and get just past hobgoblin where i live......... what a long night it will be in the car

Hob's Effra Road isn't it so it shouldn't be affected, UNLESS they divert buses up there, although they often divert them along Acre Lane and then up the back towards Christchurch Road.

Anyway, I'm off now. Hope it doesn't start snowing whilst I trudge up Brixton Hill

 

[lang rabbie]

Hob's Effra Road isn't it so it shouldn't be affected, UNLESS they divert buses up there, although they often divert them along Acre Lane and then up the back towards Christchurch Road.

Anyway, I'm off now. Hope it doesn't start snowing whilst I trudge up Brixton Hill

IIRC Last time they diverted all the buses up Effra Road/Tulse Hill then back along Christchurch Road

 

[jjf]

how long's it going to take

Workmen told me this evening it's going to take 'at least three days' to fix. I'm no expert but it looks like it's only one sodding pipe - how long can it take to fix one pipe? Surely they can do that overnight. But no, they're going to have five well-trained workers stand guard over a pump for the next 72 hours while the bosses come up with ludicrous estimates for the council. Bring in the Chinese I say

 

[Wee Beastie]

Thought this was about the river that runs under Josephine Avenue.