Our thanks to one of our many QLocal readers in leafy Aughton for this update on the story reporter Roger Blaxall posted on Friday night re. a blocked drain on Northway: https://www.qlocal.co.uk/ormskirk/new...d-55031016.htm.

It seems Lancashire County Council know about it, but have done nothing to sort out the problem - sound familiar?

This e-mail 'flooded' (sorry!) into the busy QLocal newsdesk yesterday:

'Hi Roger,

Re the fountaining manhole cover that you photographed at the junction of Northway/Moss Delph Lane...

I noticed this too, back in early February, when it was fountaining in heavy rain, and all the adjacent gulleys were blocked/silted.

I initially reported the drain to UU, and the gulleys to LCC (on their website).

UU phoned me a few days later to say that they’d visited and lifted the manhole cover, they could see the drain was full to the brim, and is blocked. However, it wasn’t one of theirs, but is a highway drain so belongs to LCC. They told me they’d report the problem to LCC; for good measure I also added it to the LCC fault reporting website with some pictures that I’d taken. See LCC website fault report no 305628 details below, over 3 months ago now.

Flooding Fault
Highway Flooding, reported on 14/02/2018
Ref no: 305628
Status: Received

The gulleys were cleared shortly afterwards, but as you’ve just seen the drain remains blocked.'