We now have a set of road works (Possibly Water) on Chesterfield Road (A61) bewteen Valley Road and ALbert Road, long delays at lunch time today - hate to think what it will be like at russh hour in the week

yes was a nightmare we went passed about 2.15 thought it was footie traffic wished we'd gone the other way now

The problem is : Abbeydale Road is also blocked by water works the only way round is round the back and up past bishops house

Won't be long though.
According to local handouts they are claiming that they are flushing out the pipes, for the mains water supply. But call me a conspiracy theorist if you like but that really doesn't make any sense to me at all. I think they are actually up to something quite different.

I think they are covering something up that they don't want the public or authorities to know.

When we went out it was backed up from Heeley Retail Park to the bottom of Millmount Rd.

Could it have something to do with the floods? The 2 occasions in June (the day of the bid flood and the time 2 weeks before that?) when the bridge flooded, there was a lot of water coming up from the manhole covers in that area, and I remember a torrent of water coming from Arnold Lavers over the wall in to the street.

Unlikely DK,
that part of London road, under the railway bridge, has flooded for over a century, probably since they diverted the river and roadway to build the Heeley Railway station in the mid 19th century, however it is much less prone to flooding now since they improved Heeley Bridge in 2000

Drove that way today - still got the temporary traffic lights in position and some barriers across one side of the road but absoluely nothing happening ! No holes in the road or any work going on at all ! Surely the lights could have been dispensed with over the weekend ?

The bit under the railway bridge used to flood in the 60s it then stoped doing so then about ten years ago it started again when the rain was heavy.

The situation at Rails where there is flooding, is differant again, this started about ten years ago but water comes off the area around Lavers off the railway and onto the road.

I have a photo of this in the last floods , I suspect that part of this problem is that the railway line was 4 tracks this was cut to two tracks in the 70s, over the years what was ballast on the old tracks that allowed water to drain away is now grass / soild etc.

You just have to look at the trees taht are growing you can see them from the road.

Water can no longer drain away so therefore it go on to the road there also appears to be a problem with the man hole cover which appears to blow when it rains I presume this is a storm drain which flows into the sheaf