THIS CULVERT IS SUPPOSED TO BE CLEANED THREE TIMES PER WEEK IN INCLEMENT WEATHER. I have it in writing but it is totally meaningless. It has now been two months since any one cleared it and now we are coming in to the wet weather we will see this area being flooded right up and through the underpass, as it was last year. Then it freezes over and creates a skating rink.
One of the resons for this blog has been the death in 2000 of Robert Mills in this culvert, when he fell through a missing handrail and died in the burn.
Immediately the council issued a lying statement that the handrail had been inspected the day previous. Those of us who live here were branded liars as we knew the handrail had been broken for months. I went to court to swear to that as did several neighbours.
It seems to me that there is now a campaign of discrimination being practised in the area as some kind of retribution for that, and the neglect and incompetence here is just appalling.
I have a file of letters from managers etc. saying this and that will be done. It seems that anarchy exists within the department responsible for this area, and they just ignore it all. Last week I saw a worker who was scraping at leaves in Glenluce, walk round and look at the grid and then walked back to continue is chat on his mobile, whilst kicking the leaves around. So it is known about.
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