And no, the blog title isn't a metaphor. I really do mean this literally. This blog is about actual shit.
This needs a little back story. Twelve years ago a sizeable housing estate was built over the scrub land near our house - The housing company,
Countryside Properties, also built a sewage pumping station right next to our house to service the estate, too. It's up the hill from us. You can probably see where this is going.
CUNTryside are a fucking incompetent lot despite their image. They cut many, many corners while building their housing estate, and their pumping station. They've been sued many times by residents of the estate for the flaws in their houses that were sold to them for hundreds of thousands of pounds - Fat load of good it did the residents who haven't received a penny in compensation.
Anyway, the pumping station has constantly broken down over the years but has always been repaired by
Anglian Water. They were due to adopt it last year (2011), but since it was built so shoddily they've refused to, and had a massive argument with Cuntryside Properties over it - Basically that means they stopped constantly patching it up to keep it running.
Two weeks ago the overflow reservoir, designed to fill up in case the pumps stopped working, got too full and has since been overflowing into our (large-ish) garden in one huge torrent - At first we thought it was just drainage water, but over the past week the smell has been slowly getting worse.
Much of the garden is now a swamp because of the resultant water table rise, all our natural water courses are now full of this shit including both our ponds, and it's flowing out of our garden and down the hill into the local woods, flooding several public footpaths with foul-smelling water.
To cut a long story short, me and my mum have spent a lot of time on the phone with both Cuntyside Properties and the water company who, despite visiting us, surveying the damage and confirming that yes, the water flowing through our garden is sewage, have both refused to do anything about it.
They called out a sewage vacuum truck out on new year's eve to clear the pumps ONLY when the estate residents complained that they could no longer flush their toilets and that there was sewage coming out of a manhole cover on the street - And fat load of good that's done to solve this permanently - The torrent of water has gotten stronger and more foul-smelling with today's rain!
We've tried involving the council too who don't seem to be very interested despite sewage flooding our garden and some public footpaths...
So what the fuck do we do, short of teaming up with the estate residents and suing the pants off of them? How the fuck are they getting away with this?! Why the fuck isn't Environmental Health helping us either?! The fuck is wrong with this fucking province??
Don't live in Essex, it sucks here.
