Recent content by RexKramer

Old man lives there and I heard about it the other day. Top man and very popular with fans of all colours. Will miss the shots whenever Boro score and the evil eye from H when I bought him a beer.

I say Middlesbru and "The Burra" Same as you but born and brought up in Norton and B|illingham.

That brown water isn't sewage

Guess it depend on who is more efficient, private business or government with multiple priorities.

Sewarage is the pipes and pumps, just stop sewage has a better ring to it. *uness you prefer no sewerage.

MAybe the cost isn't the issue but who pays is.

Billingham effluent is pumped to Seaton and, I think, discharged to the sea.

I'll not disagree with that but that ship has sailed. And these businesses will cost a lot more to privatise than they brought in.

Thinking about it, Teesside kind of has it's own interceptor. Stockton drains into Portrack and Middlesbrough into Cargo Fleet and both pumped to Teesport.

And here is part of the problem. The drainage system was a ticking timebomb for years before privatisation and the regulators have so far prioritised other things.

When, or not long after, NWL were taken over they took a credit line/loan from the new owner on less favorable terms than the existing arrangement. But when you invest £2B+, or anything for that matter, what sort of annual returns can/should you expect?

Tyneside has an Interceptor and guess what, it still overflows during heavy rainfall. The only solution is to get rainwater out of they system.

It isn't pumped out. It's a CSO/SSO and the alternative is flooding residents.

Salt n Lineker

Sports reporters don't have to be imaprtial