Water firm’s sewer pipe denials
A FORTNIGHT ago a member of Kintyre Amenity Trust (KAT) reported what seemed to be a leaking pipe in Big Kiln.
On Tuesday, fed up that Scottish Water did not seem serious about stinking effluent flowing down the road, KAT member Liz Kelly attempted to remove what she thought was blocking the pipe.
In addition, Mrs Kelly called the Courier and by Wednesday morning traffic lights had appeared in the road outside the Heritage Centre although there were no men at work.
When the Courier photographed Mrs Kelly and some noxious fluid coming from the pipe, a loose grating, with the embossed word sewer was lying on the tarmac.
Repair
The Courier contacted Scottish Water and was told: ‘This is a burst water pipe. We plan to repair it in the next few days.’
Even after sending Scottish Water a picture of the grating a spokesman insisted it was a water main. He said: ‘It is simply the wrong cover that’s on it and it will be replaced.’
Mrs Kelly said: ‘We phoned Scottish Water on Tuesday and I said I could not understand why no-one has been out to fix it.
‘With another person, I scraped the muck out, including a plastic bag which had been pushed down the hole, but the stream kept flowing.’
Mrs Kelly added that this was just one in a long list of problems making the town look and smell disgusting as the summer season begins.