{"id":5273,"date":"2024-03-14T15:25:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2024-03-14T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:29:40","slug":"water-butt-trial-free-fit-in-wrea-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/news\/water-butt-trial-free-fit-in-wrea-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Butt Trial. Free Fit in Wrea Green"},"content":{"rendered":"
The final phase of Wrea Green smart water butt trial. United utilities are in the village next Tuesday 19th<\/sup> March<\/b> and Wednesday 20th<\/sup> March<\/b> we would paricularly like to fit water butts in the following streets. <\/b><\/p>\n Dear Residents<\/p>\n As you may have heard, over the past few months, we\u2019ve been busy installing Smart water butts in and around Wrea Green.<\/i> These internet enabled tanks harvest water like a standard water butt but prior to storms and heavy periods of rain, are automatically programmed to slowly release water, thereby creating additional capacity.<\/p>\n It might not sound like alot but this extra capacity helps reduce the volume of water entering the system at any given time, and in turn helps reduce the likelihood of local roads and gardens from flooding.<\/p>\n <\/b>Saving over 1,000,000 Litres of rainwater<\/b><\/p>\n With the water butts we\u2019ve already installed on Station road, Beverley Close and Bryning Lane etc, we\u2019ve collected over 4,250 litres per water butt in just three months – that\u2019s 22x more than the standard 200L volume. Currently we\u2019re on target to reduce the amount of water released into Wrea Green\u2019s sewer system by more than 1 million litres a year. But we\u2019d like to install even more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your chance to take part<\/b><\/p>\n You can have a Smart enabled water butt fitted at your home*, completely free of charge, at a time that suits you. The butts take up a minimal amount of space \u2013 just 58cm wide and 99cm tall- are formed from recycled material and once installed will require no upkeep other than you using them as you usually would to water the garden.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Installation is Free and easy<\/b><\/p>\n You just need to sign up<\/i> and we do the rest. Once you\u2019ve signed up, one of our team will come and survey the best place to site the SMART water butt and check that the location and downpipes are suitable. Once that\u2019s confirmed, they\u2019ll pop back to fit it – this generally takes around 15 minutes<\/p>\n You can sign up for a survey here <\/i>https:\/\/uuhub.co.uk\/wreagreen\/<\/a><\/u> and provided your home is suitable (the majority are), we\u2019ll arrange an installation date for your free SMART water butt.<\/p>\n We look forward to hearing from you soon and helping you to support Wrea Green even more.<\/p>\n And don\u2019t just take our word for it:<\/p>\n \u201cWe were approached to take part in the Wrea Green Smart water butt pilot scheme and were very enthusiastic. Anything that might help minimise the flooding in the village seems a good idea. The installation was completed with no inconvenience to ourselves. I am not sure yet if it has made a big difference, but I have noticed that some regular flooding areas have not seemed quite as bad. I understand that data is being collected and analysed, so look forward to seeing the outcomes!<\/i> \u201c Mary, Wrea Green<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Come on, what\u2019s stopping you?<\/p>\n Best<\/p>\n Katy<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n Katy Bevan<\/b> Rainwater Management<\/p>\n Wastewater Services & Better Rivers<\/p>\n M:<\/b> 07918375655<\/p>\n unitedutilities.com<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The final phase of Wrea Green smart water butt trial. United utilities are in the village next Tuesday 19th March and Wednesday 20th March we would paricularly like to fit water butts in the following streets. Beverley Close Bryning Avenue Bryning Lane Church Row Church View Fold Dubside Elms Drive First Avenue Manor Road Manor Way Mccall Close Mill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5276,"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wreagreen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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