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Gardeners can have free water carrier



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GARDENERS will be able to get a free rainwater butt thanks to a link up between Southern Water and Portsmouth City Council.
Water butts collect rainwater from roofs instead of it going down the drain. It can be used for watering plants and means less demand on main water supplies.

Up to 15,000 water butts are set to be handed out to Portsmouth residents to help reduce
the risk of drains and sewers flooding in heavy rain storms.

Cllr Gerald Vernon-Jackson, leader of the city council, said: 'We came to Southern Water with this idea and they generously agreed to give all these water butts away, with our help.

'It follows on from the council's free compost bin offer, which was a massive success, saving about £130,000 a year in waste collection and disposal costs.

'The water butt offer is a way to reduce the impact of rain storms on the city and to encourage greener gardening, with less tapwater used.'

To claim a free rainwater butt, residents can either fill in a form in the council's Flagship magazine, being delivered to homes this month, or go to www.portsmouth.savewater.co.uk and fill in an online form. The offer is only open to Portsmouth residents and is limited to one water butt per household.



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  • Last Updated: 25 July 2008 8:54 AM
  • Source: NS-Fareham & Gosport
  • Location: Portsmouth
 
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Smileydee,

Portsmouth 25/07/2008 15:36:53
This was a sop that would then allow Southern Water to access and steal part of Bransbury Park for their ill conceived flawed plan to build an electric pumping station under the park thus destroying mature trees and leaving the surface with grasscrete blocks instead of grass. Would you want a child to play on grasscrete? It is a scheme to get a foothold in the park before claiming it as a CPO in the future. The neighbours from hell give nothing away so it has to be a ploy! How many dinners did GVJ get before he agreed to that?
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Yocal,

Waterlooville 26/07/2008 13:45:47
I can't see how PCC is to blame?
Surely peoples demand for water is the problem.

eg. if people insist on using water wastefully then combined with population increases, water demand will rise and resources will need to be found.

I hope in future rain water harvesting will be a common feature of homes in Portsmouth so that it can be used to flush toilets and for use in clothes washing. Instead of wasting valuable drinking water.
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Smileydee,

Portsmouth 26/07/2008 17:24:30
It was a deal between GVJ and Southern Water in order to secure the use of Bransbury Park for a new underground pumping station. The use of the park is considered by SW and PCC to be "legal" but independent planners say this is not the case. It could have been legal if Southern Water used the land and then it was restored to its former condition but this will not happen. Instead we lose mature trees and have a grasscrete area that SW will hijack whenever they feel like it. It is the thin end of the wedge and when we look round SW will use a CPO and bingo the top end of the park has been lost. The offer of waterbuts is a joke compared to the deal that could have been done but a couple of dinners and a bottle of wine can be very persuasive.
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