Water supply

As most of you know the society has been trying without success to persuade the council to improve the water supply.

Over the years various schemes have been proposed but nothing has happened.

We understand that recently Thames Water has told Barnet that if any changes were made to the system, they would require major works to install non-return valves at the points where the supply entered the site, the lagging of all standpipes and the replacement of taps by tanks with ball valves, so that only watering cans may be used.

For that reason Barnet has taken no further action, and it is virtually certain that they will do nothing until the site management issues are finalised.

After that, if we are managing the site, it would be up to us to decide what to do.

On a related matter, we heard recently that the bill paid by Barnet last year for the water used on our site was about £1000 more than we paid in water charges. So if the system is improved, the use of water will inevitably increase and so will our water charges.

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