Barton Street Hit with Deluge

Filed in Recent News by March 8, 2016

RESIDENTS of Barton Street had their morning interrupted by a torrent of water when Council staff damaged a water pipe at the town’s water reservoir.

Barton Street flooded this morning

Barton Street flooded this morning

David Peen was making his breakfast at 8:10am when he heard the water.

“I knew it was the sound of water, it sounded like a river in flood and everyone knows what that sounds like,” said Mr Penn.

“I had one foot of water coming down the yard and about two foot deep at the air conditioners and my pump when under,” he said.

“I raced up there and used all the swear words I could think of,” he said.

“Why send someone up there without knowing where the pipes are, that’s what the Shire has to answer for,” he said.

“They are a bunch of idiots.

“They had been putting in the gate valves and didn’t realise the 12 inch asbestos main from Aberdeen was about a metre next to the poly-pipe and they hit it,” he said.

David Peen showing where the water level reached thsi morning

David Peen showing where the water level reached this morning

David Peen estimates there were 13,500 litres of water go through the bottom level of his house and run down Barton Street, but does not want the Council to assist with the clean up.

“I don’t want them traipsing through my house, I wouldn’t trust them to do anything,” he said.

“I’ll have to wait for everything to dry out and clean it myself,” David Peen said.

Kathryn Reichel lives on the lower side of Barton Street and said they thought it was strange to hear rain when there were no clouds in the sky.

“It sounded like rain,” said Ms Reichel.

“It came over the gutter, around the sides of the house and through the shed and over the back of our place,” she said.

“The pipe they damaged wasn’t on apparently, it was the water remaining in the pipe,” Kathryn Reichel said.

Bev Dick who lives two doors from David Penn said they were fortunate the water did not come through their house.

“I was making a cup of tea and I thought ‘gosh I’m sure I turned the water off next door’ because I’d been watering for the neighbours,” said Mrs Dick.

“In the time we have lived here we have had this happen once before when workers put the water pipe the wrong side of an embankment and it ran through the house,” she said.

“I’m glad we are ok, but David has quite a mess to clean up,” Bev Dick said.

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