Category Archives: waste

A leaky business


There are two water leaks on Oxford Road in Abingdon, on either side of the Appleford Drive junction near the speed camera. TW engineers have visited the leaks and marked them with blue. Those leaks are at least two weeks old.

A look at the Thames Water reporting website map shows other leaks in other locations in Abingdon.

Newspapers are comparing the amount of water lost through leaks against the amount saved by the hosepipe ban – introduced today. For example ‘Thames Water wastes the same amount of water as leaving a hosepipe on every single day for more than 73 years, trade union GMB has claimed. The union said that Thames Water’s creaking infrastructure loses 635m litres in leaks every single day.’

Thankyou to all the wonderful dog walkers who dispose of dog poo correctly

Dog Bins
Tony sent me this picture from somewhere in Abingdon.
Dog Bins
I took a picture of this replacement dog bin. It is on Mill Road in Abingdon. The red bin has replaced the original green bin.

I also took a picture of a dog bag hanging on a fence post, but then thought nobody wants to see that. Instead let me thank all the wonderful dog walkers who dispose of dog poo correctly. Gone are the bad old days.

A Thursday night in Abingdon Town Centre

A Thursday night
Thursday night in Abingdon Town Centre and at the first anniversary of the re-opening of The Crown and Thistle a band were playing in the barn.
A Thursday night
Further down Bridge Street at the Broad Face jazz players were performing.

Elsewhere less musical works were in progress …
A Thursday night
Below High Street a ‘deep excavation’ has been dug by Cappagh Browne working on behalf of Lanes Group plc. for Thames Water “to improve your sewerage network.”
A Thursday night
A lot of new scaffolding has recently been erected on the High Street.
A Thursday night
And outside residences, the smaller, black, ‘non-recylable’  wheelie bins are waiting for their contents to be taken away and dumped in landfill or burned at the new Incinerator at Ardley in North Oxfordshire.

Bags or Bins

Most houses in Abingdon are served by wheelie bins as part of the recently introduced waste processing system.
New Bags
Other houses, like this one on Ock Street, have bags instead. They had a delivery  today – possibly only the second time this has happened.  They are mostly houses without rear access.

I would guess the projected cost of the bags will become more than the cost of the bins after a certain time. Therefore in the long run the bins become the cheaper, more environmentally friendly, option.
New Bags
A few door away, in the Brewery Development, wheelie bins have become a permanent feature  at the front. Here rear access is difficult but not impossible.