the common's water

october 10th 1871 no kilvert. (more kilvert tomorrow)

nothing obvious in the diary. 

horsemouth went to a meeting of the commons water trust. he walked in and got a lift back. he missed out on his bell-ringing for the evening (hopefully he can get in next week's one). 

the water comes from an aquifier up in the black mountains and after much filtration through gravel and clay pops out at st. michael's well on the common. from there it is gravity fed to a large tank and thence by a series of alkethene pipes to horsemouth's mum and all the people lower down on the common. (the water is pumped up to the people higher up on the common). 

the pipework and the infrastructure is the remnants of a military base - it's mostly in steel, fortunately there seems to be no sign of lead or of asbestos. thereafter the the pipes that deliver to the houses are in alkethene.

it was a small meeting. the people from the house at st.michael's well were there. broadly after two drought years on a roll people recognise that that water from the common is a scarce resource and that the infrastructure is in need of replacing if the supply is going to be resilient. 

today a quiet day (horsemouth thinks). 

tomorrow maybe zoom beers with howard.