It had to come sooner or later. It's just been announced that United
Utilities have issued a ban notice for South Cumbria from Friday morning.

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/home/hose-p...errerPath=home

jim, Northampton

"jbm" wrote in message
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It had to come sooner or later. It's just been announced that United
Utilities have issued a ban notice for South Cumbria from Friday morning.

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/home/hose-p...errerPath=home

jim, Northampton


It's not just South Cumbria. Entering any postcode at all (even, say, a
London one) into the UU homepage hosepipe ban search box leads to this
map...

http://www.unitedutilities.com/5226.htm

Still only 6.6 mm (5" - Davis 7.0mm) here in Cheshire. March, April, May
and June were all significantly drier than their 1970-2000 averages (and
June was also nearly 2C warmer than average).

Steve P
Acton Bridge
http://www.pardoe.net/meteo/weather.htm

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:22:03 +0100, Steve Pardoe wrote:

It's not just South Cumbria. Entering any postcode at all (even, say, a
London one) into the UU homepage hosepipe ban search box leads to this
map...

Mine comes back as "unaffected" a NE Eden District one. B-) Our
water comes from Burnhope now, it used to come from an adit up the
hill about 1/2 a mile away.

But yes the search is broken as I put in a Slough post code and it is
affected...

I'd report it to them but the web form wants a full address(*) and
one of the required fields is "Road/street name:" our road doesn't
have a name. I guess I could find its C number but life is too
short...

(*) Far too much information for a general report/enquiry, looks like
they are employing second rate web "designers" to me. Ones that don't
actually use web sites or properly test the stuff they have written.

--
Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.