Bring on the repossessions

1986? I was working in North Devon then and was The Man for that
bloody Job too. We had to work quite hard to get people to accept
detectors in some cases, frequently ending up twisting the arm of
Parish Clerks or councillors, just to be able to site a detector in
the right spot. A lot of residents, especially the real locals, werwe
quite worried about it, but just didn't want to know.

I well remember meeting a colleague from Mid Devon who had Okehampton
on his patch and the results from that area made his hair stand on
end. He moved on in a hurry before it fell out, I think. I don't
think we got anything spectacular like that, but a few of them were
followed up.

 

I can't raise you on that one, but my paternal grandfather was an
Irish tinker who made a living selling wooden carvings to mug punters.

Not much changes, really.

 

SD wrote

Does pottery not appeal?

 

86 sounds about right. We managed to get a reasonable coverage of
'pots'. We thought we might get hot spots in one part of the patch where
there is a granite road stone quarry. As it turned out there was only
one site that we had to check again because it got near the action
level. As it happened that was the house of the Chair (person - LA PC
speak) of our committee. Just a brick built semi miles from the granite
outcrop. Can't remember the geology it was sitting on. Anyway, on
re-survey it was not high enough to need a sump or ventilation. Poor old
dear did have Emphysema and didn't make it to a ripe old age though (the
40 a day may have been a factor).

Did your private water supply testing show up any significant radon?


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Probably the wrong sort of clay - ours is. And in places only about 1
inch below the soil.

That's the problem with building houses on former farmland that was
used for dairy cows - as long as it grew grass the farmer wouldn't have
done anything to it.

Phil.

 

Not as far as I can recall. The geology of N Devon doesn't lend
itself, fortunately - sandstone (from the Devonian orogeny somewhat
unsurprisingly) pretty much throughout, as you can see here:

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/jpg/ukmap8.jpg

My 'patch' carries the number 23 (ORS), and the authority borders
follow it fairly closely.

There were /hundreds/ of PWS that soaked up a goodly budget down
there. Hundreds of private water exits that took a lot of time, too.

There's a story that comes to mind involving flouescein drain dye,
silage effluent-polluted water and a river that I'll confess to one
day.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon banged the rocks together and they said :

What are these things called mortgages of which you speak?[/QUOTE]

Head, Nail interface there brother.

Well, I suppose I have one, but at ?0, they can charge whatever
interest they like.

 

Large parts of Northamptonshire have high levels of Radon and when I
was asked to have detectors in my house to monitor the levels I fucked
them off straight away. My concern was possibly having to declare a
problem when I came to selling the house and it costing me a lot of
money. Funnily enough I sold the house about 18 months later and moved
the problem on to someone else.

 

You'd be a bit stuffed now. The new mining searches that are compulsory for
HIPs after June 1st include radon.

Ali