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The director of Water Operations at Southern Water, Tim McMahon, is calling on the people of Broadstairs to join him later this month to answer any questions they may have about the recent issues, compensation and their future plans for the area.

Read the below statement from Southern Water in full:

Broadstairs residents, please join us on 14 March at St Andrews Community Hall, Broadstairs to find out more about how we’re improving your local water supply.

We know that we’ve caused a lot of distress and disruption for you over the past year and that you have been left without water on a number of occasions.

We agree that this is unacceptable and we’ve been working hard to update the water network, supply works and booster stations in your local area to make them more resilient to power outages and bursts.

We’d like to invite you to join us at a drop in on 14 March at St Andrews Community Hall, Reading Street (CT10 3AZ) from 3pm to 5:30pm to learn more.

I’ll be on hand to answer any questions you might have about our water networks, and we’ll also have members of our customer team on hand to talk to you about compensation payments and our priority support services.

When we last spoke to you, we’d already installed a new temporary back-up generator at our Rumfields site, and we’re pleased to report that a permanent connector and generator have now been put in place. We’ve also installed a new system that allows us to switch to alternative supplies during power outages.

The site’s water tower has also now been relined, which means that we’re able to store more water locally, avoiding further outages in the future.

We’re investing a total of £2 billion, which is around £1,000 per household, across our region between 2020 and 2025 to improve our services to you, reduce pollution, and fix leaks.

I look forward to meeting you.

Yours sincerely,

Tim McMahon

Water Director