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A footpath on Bouverie Road West is to be closed for two weeks while work is carried out to improve the uneven surface.

After completing work in Folkestone, Veolia Water is undertaking a series of mains renewal schemes in the autumn and early winter to cut the risk of bursts and help reduce leakage in Shepway and Dover.

Two huge projects to improve the water supply on Romney Marsh are being launched by Veolia Water as part of its five year £34.5m capital investment programme.

Veolia Water is launching a number mains renewal schemes in Shepway over the summer to replace older pipes which are at risk of failure.

Improvements to a water treatment plant near Acrise has begun as part of a £2 million improvement project.

Veolia Water has completed a series of mains renewal schemes which will cut the likelihood of bursts and interruptions of supply to customers say the company.

Hundreds of Kent pensioners die of the cold each year and now they are under serious threat of even higher energy prices according to regulator, OFGEM.

Hawkinge will now be able to look forward to a brighter future after power company EDF repaired the electrical fault in an underground power cable which has recently dogged the village.

The cable problems were not restricted to Hawkinge and villages in the area including those in the Elham Valley suffered from the low voltage and intermittent supply.

There was a serious dip in power on Sunday (18 January) but on Monday morning after two brief interruptions to the supply which lasted just a few seconds, the new equipment was successfully installed.

 

Be prepared for traffic disruption and delays in the area next month when work begins on replacing a water main.

A road closure is to be put in place to enable Folkestone and Dover Water Services carry out the work.

There are two phases of the works which begin on 24 November 2008 for an estimated 3 months.

This closure will be carried out as described below:

Phase 1

Fernfield Lane - From its junction with The Street to its junction with the KCC waste tip access road.

There will be a diversion via The Street, Canterbury Road and the KCC waste tip access road.

Phase 2

Fernfield Lane - From its junction with the KCC waste tip access road through to Fernfield Farm.

A diversion via Cowgate Lane, Standen Lane, Alkham Valley Road and Lockeringe Lane will be put in place.

A road in Folkestone which was scheduled to be closed for repairs for 4 months from January 2008 has still not re-opened.

Horn Street, which runs between the A259 Seabrook Road junction and Cheriton High Street in Folkestone, has now been closed for more than seven months.

The road which is also a bus route, was shut for water mains works.

Cheriton Councillor Tim Prater is amazed the works have gone on so long.

He said: "Horn Street is an important local road, and its closure for so long has caused real difficulties locally, and even closed St Martins School for a day when the works blocked access to the School.

"With these works originally due to end around April, for the works still to be ongoing well into September is infuriating - and there appears to be no end in sight."

Cllr Prater has written to Kent County Council as the Highways Authority to ask when they now expect works to be completed.