Excuse for gullies not being cleared doesn't hold water

I HAVE spent 55 years in the Wonderful World of Plumbing and feel qualified to reply to Nick Hetherington's mind boggling letter. What a load of hogwash. He must think us ratepayers came in on the banana boat.
By The Newsroom
Published 30th Jul 2007, 11:07 BST
Updated 31st Jul 2007, 14:02 BST

I would correct some of his statements: he blames 'vehicles parked at all times' for gullies not being cleared.

The main Chesterfield Road outside my house is a clearway. One of the many offending gullies is directly at the bottom of my drive, within an H marking. He talks of having 'cleared the drains and gullies'. Yes. The gullies are emptied but drains, especially around the trap, are not rodded through to the main sewer, in my neck of the wood between the ever-eroding Derbyshire Lane and Beeton Road.

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I throw down a challenge to Mr Hetherington: join me to witness the erosion of streets and asphalt topping of the gullies in my area.

Stanley Wraith, Chesterfield Road, Meersbrook

IS Nick Hetherington, Head of Sheffield City Council Street Force Service (July 24) aware that drain cleaning only is hardly good enough. Taking steps to rectify drains that do not work is required. What about the non-existent drains, that is even worse? Has he not read The Star where articles have been written regarding these drains?

There are areas of Sheffield that, over 14 years, have regularly flooded with only modest rainfall and some from time immorial have flooded. Has he not noticed that his drains do not work in certain areas?

Please do not let the Dutch know about our modest rain floods, they will only laugh at us and think we in Sheffield are a joke.

KLT, Sheffield