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.’
Maybe we could collect all the water from the leaks in Abingdon and use it to fill up the reservoir in Abingdon, that is being built to provide water that is lost through leakage?
Just been made aware that the council is excluding the Abbey cinema from tonight’s 25th Aug council meeting as it is confidential regarding renewing the lease on the cinema site.
Apparently there is considerable cost in repairs to the roof and then ongoing matters over the next 5 years that the cinema company have offered to contribute £400k towards. Council want the lease signed by end of August otherwise lease could be terminated.
There is little enough in the way of entertainment in the town, shop units empty, nothing new coming in.
The cinema seems to be well supported and would be a great loss to the town. Don’t understand why discussions are confidential and secret or have council got some other plan for the building.
Sorry to hijack thread