Flush Tracker

[karohemd]

I'm tracking my morning flush. It went practically due East (not North towards the treatment plant) to St. Neots, turned North and is currently in Little Paxton. Where is it going and why?
ETA: Aha, it's stopped at the treatment plant in Little Paxton. *scratches head*
ETA2: As suggested by chrisvenus, I started a flush at the treatment plant in Milton that's a mile from my house and it went to Little Paxton regardless. Epic Fail.

Comments

[chrisvenus]

I was wondering if it is actually genuine or if they just plan a route along roads to one of many treatment plants and plot that slowly on a map. I find that much more likely than that they actually have the full sewer pipe network programmed in that they then use to plot the route.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

There are also sections along my route that go straight across fields so it seems rather random. The nearest plant is just about a mile from my house, the one it actually went to is over 20 miles away.

[chrisvenus]

Maybe you should look up the postcode of the plant near you and put that in and see where it reckons it goes. If it doesn't go to that plant then I reckon you are safe to call shennanigans on it. :)

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

reading their information and reading between the lines they seem to take your postcode and that of the sewage plant and estimate a route based on that (using google)
see below

'MY FLUSH ENDED UP IN A SEWAGE PLANT BUT I CAN'T SEE IT. WHY NOT?
WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE POSTCODES OF THE SEWAGE PLANTS BY THE NATIONAL WATER BOARDS. IF IT DOES NOT CORRELATE TO AN ACCURATE LOCATION, THAT IS EITHER BECAUSE THAT POSTCODE IS INACCURATE OR THAT GOOGLE INTERPRETS IT INACCURATELY.

MY FLUSH HAS BEEN TRAVELLING FOR AGES. IS IT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT?
WE HAVE CALCULATED THE LOCATION OF YOUR NEAREST SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND ITS ESTIMATED ROUTE UNDERGROUND BASED ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED TO US BY THE WATER BOARD. IF YOURS IS TAKING A LONG TIME IT MAY MEAN THAT THERE IS A SEWAGE PLANT NEARER TO YOU BUT WHOSE LOCATION HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN TO US.'

[chrisvenus]

Well, that teaches me a lesson in bothering to read websites before speculating. :) I wonder what information provided by the water board they use (eg is there pipe routes or just catchment areas or something else...

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

looking at the map if i do an hour so the whole route is plotted in i reckon they plot junctions and draw straight lines so if a road curves between a plot point you get a straight line going over houses, fields, estates etc. And it basically follows main roads (but tbh I believe most pipes do most of the time as that is the easiest way to access them)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It starts right in the middle of the plant and then leaves it. FAIL! (http://www.flushtracker.com/index.php?page=start&ln=uk&trackid=rm7J3J8F8T&sms_ss=livejournal&at_xt=4ce69d7c5833c500,0)

[matgb]

Given that in some parts of the UK, there is no sewer map that's been verified, I concur.

My Dad used to be an EHO, Torquay used to have (ages ago) multiple different sewarage firms installing pipes in the same streets using different routes. Some of them went bust, all of the networks were absorbed by the local authority then passed on to the water board.

There are some areas where they still haven't figured out which houses are connected to which pipe or which routes they take. They know where pipes are, they know where they go to, but exact route tracking would require digging up the whole town.

They have used various dye colours to trace some areas. Dad died the harobour bright green once. They tracked that particular sewer and rerouted it fairly quickly...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Whoops, hehe.

[fithefaerie.livejournal.com]

congrats, you have given me my pointless procrastination tool for today's essay hell.
:D

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! ;)

[chrisvenus]

I felt it amusing to say that when I first read the post (before I clicked the link) I was wondering if there was some cheap hi-tech gadget that you could just flush down your toilet to get some tracking information from. That'd be so much cooler... :)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Frog wearing a headset?

[professoryaffle.livejournal.com]

Something which is worth remembering in this is your closest sewerage treatment plant maybe uphill from you

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That's a good point but I doubt there's more of an incline between King's Hedges and Milton than between KH and Little Paxton.