Service Description: The Isle of Wight Council is responsible for routine ditch and gully emptying, emergency clearance of ditches, gullies and drains when flooding of roads or pavements is occurring. Highway drainage is used to clear surface water from the highway, it is not designed to cater for run-off from adjacent properties.
Also known as:- Blocked Drains - Roads, Blocked Gullies - Roads, Flooding - Roads, Road Drains - Flooding, Road Gullies - Flooding, Surface Water
Answer: These are large underground drains connecting the highway drain to an appropriate outfall (ditch/rivers/sea). The sewer carry’s surface water, although in some circumstances highway drains are connected to contained sewers which are the responsibility of southern water services. These are discharged to the sewerage treatment works.