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Review of Water Supply Outage Monitoring Report

To consider the progress made against the remaining actions arising from the review and to determine whether any further action or reports are required. 

Minutes:

41.1          Attention was drawn to the report of the Head of Community Services, circulated at Pages No. 79-89, which provided an update on progress against the action plan arising from the Scrutiny Review of Water Supply Outage.  Members were asked to consider the report and to determine whether any further action or reports were required on this matter.

41.2          The Head of Community Services explained that the Overview and Scrutiny Committee had conducted a review of the significant water supply outage that had affected the borough in December 2017 which had resulted in a number of recommendations contained with an action plan.  The Committee had received a progress update at its meeting in March 2019 where there were six actions outstanding, in progress or complete and a further update had been requested in six months’ time.  It was noted that the outstanding actions had now all been completed with the exception of the work to the pipes on the Severn Ham which was not due to finish until August 2020.  Severn Trent Water had confirmed that operatives would be on site in Spring 2020 with the intention of having the new pipes in place by the target date and had offered to provide a verbal update to the Committee once all works were completed, should Members wish.  It was also noted that a business resilience event was being planned for later in the year - although the date had changed from 13 November as stated in the report and was now likely to be 19 November - which would be hosted at the Public Services Centre and would focus on food businesses and producers, including the agricultural sector, who had been particularly impacted by the water outage.

41.3           A Member drew attention to Page No. 87, Recommendation 16 – Work with Town and Parish Councils to develop emergency plans – and raised concern that this was marked as complete, with a target date of April 2019, but the commentary stated that the work was due to be completed over the next 12-18 months.  The Head of Community Services gave assurance that a programme had been drawn up to work with individual Town and Parish Councils in relation to their emergency plans but this would extend beyond 2019 so, although the action was marked as complete, work would be ongoing.  The Chair indicated that, as there was only one action outstanding which was not due to complete until mid-2020, he felt it would be appropriate to close down the review and for the Committee to receive a presentation from Severn Trent Water once it had finished its work on the Severn Ham.  It was subsequently

RESOLVED          1. That the progress against the action plan arising from the Scrutiny Review of Water Supply Outage be NOTED.

2. That closure of the review be APPROVED and that the invitation from Severn Trent Water to give a presentation to the Committee once all works on the Severn Ham had been completed be accepted.

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