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Water seeping up through road flows downhill and occasionally freezes across road
Reported via mobile in the Dangerous road surface (including ice, mud, spillage or debris) category anonymously at 09:21, Tue 16 January 2024
Sent to Bath and North East Somerset Council less than a minute later. Council ref: 5449286.
Water constantly runs down the gully to the left of the photo, draining from the field and park uphill. This is normal, given the still-blocked drains along the gully.
However, here it appears to be travelling under the road surface and seeping back up in the middle of the lane, which slopes steeply down into New Buildings. For most of the year this just causes the western side of the road to be mushy/slippy leaves, but in the recent cold weather conditions have caused the full width of the road down the hill (on the corner as you head down into New Buildings) to be wet and form a sheet of ice. A car lost traction coming up the hill last week and slid several meters back down into the hedge.
This photo shows what I believe was the root cause of that problem. We gritted the road heavily after that, but today there is thick ice in these specific places.
This not condensation off the trees above, indeed the whole lane is otherwise very dry and ice free at present.
Please could the road here be inspected for subsurface damage?
Many thanks
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Thank you for your report, it will be reviewed by the appropriate team.
State changed to: In progress
Posted by Systems Team at 09:21, Tue 16 January 2024
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Here's another view of the water where it flows down and across the road on a steep corner. Freezing weather after a wet few days will turn this into a slide.
Posted anonymously at 10:06, Tue 13 February 2024
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On closer inspection there are several more places on the road surface where water is rising up through the road, all in line with where water would prefer to flow down from Whitebrook Lane. In at least one place this water appears to contain sediments, indicating erosion is occurring.
Posted anonymously at 11:10, Tue 12 March 2024
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There are several places where water is clearly still coming up through the road surface. We're past the risk of ice for this year now I hope, but it was dangerously slippery (for cars and pedestrians) on several occasions after the initial report, with no sign of investigation. The drains are all full of stones, and they won't do anything about that either.
Posted anonymously at 13:00, Tue 9 April 2024
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Still open, via questionnaire, 14:32, Tue 7 May 2024
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Still open, via questionnaire, 15:04, Tue 4 June 2024
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Despite the hot weather there are still large damp patches in several places on this road nearer the top.
Posted anonymously at 15:07, Tue 4 June 2024
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