Friday, 3 November 2023

UPDATED: Thames Water report Wembley Triangle sewage leak. Potential pollution of Wembley Brook.

 


WEMBLEY TRIANGLE TONIGHT

 A resident reported: No engineer in sight but  no leak either. From Wembley Hill Road the road is closed to the left if you wished to go down Harrow Road. From Harrow Road coming into Wembley there is no right turn into Wembley Hill Road.

By all accounts is chaos, as from Wembley Hill Road you have no choice but to turn right into the High Road.  Vehicles are going across this junction and turning in St Josephs RC Church car park then leaping out to turn right on to Harrow Road towards NCRd.  A few are attempting to turn left at the triangle and  dicing with death as it doesn't appear that the traffic lights are giving them the option.


 Thames Water has reported to Brent Council that a 'big crack' opened up overnight on the road at Wembley Triangle. Sewage escaped from the main sewer about 3 metres below ground and cascaded into roadside gullies.

Thames have classified this as pollution as it leads into the Wembley Brook (of recent fame).  At the time of informing Brent Council. Thames said there had been no real impact on the brook at present but further work would be done today to investigate further and survey the pipe. This will establish the reapirs need to return the sewer to normal service and prevent any further flooding or pollution.

Wembley Matters has asked the Thames Water officer responsible for an update on the situation after today's investigation.


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4 comments:

  1. G.Lee3 November 2023 at 22:30

    Could this have happened perhaps because the sewers were built by the Victorians, and haven't been updated. The massive tower block developments that have been built all around Wembley must surely put a huge pressure upon the basic infrastructure of the victorian sewage system?

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    1. Philip Grant4 November 2023 at 13:14

      I think that Wembley's sewers were probably updated in the 1930s, as part of a large scale Middlesex County Council scheme.

      That still makes them around 90 years old, from a time when most of the building work going on was two-storey semi-detached suburban houses, and some three-storey shops with flats above them, not towerblocks.

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  2. Anonymous4 November 2023 at 09:09

    And where can flood water go with such deep foundations for each tower block?

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  3. Anonymous4 November 2023 at 12:03

    Interesting point Anon 4 Nov 09:09. Wembley Park was originally a swamp and lake as it was the flood plain for the River Brent and Wealdstone Brook. Flooding along the two watercourses and the canal feeders will always be a problem especially as they have been confined behind walls and embankments. Combine that with all the other building works going on such as extensions and paving front and back gardens and the flooding will continue to get worse.

    Meanwhile Brent Council keep consenting to more building because Thames Water doesn't care even though their sewers old and are bursting regularly, or at capacity and overflowing. Ask them to comment on a planning application and the just roll over, meanwhile when an area floods and the engineers come out, they know that the cause is over capacity of the Victorian infrastructure, which is well past its sell by date - take the collapsed sewer on Wembley Hill Road as an example of the flooding around Stonebridge TFL.

    Poor dumb and foolish Brent Council, as much as they don't care about the flooding, neither do they seem to realise what they are causing now and in the future due to their totally blinkered vision and lack of comprehension when it comes to their self professed Climate Emergency.

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