Resurfacing work was due to start on Stones Cross Road today (see posts of 20 March and 4 April). The flooding problems that I wrote about last week have recurred and Kent Highways drainage engineers have been looking into the problem further.
It appears that the drain around which much of the flood water is concentrated runs off through pipes and chambers to a ditch beyond the lane that runs to the south west of Stones Cross Road. The pipes are relatively narrow and suffer from silting, which has been cleared and the water is reported to be flowing. In the longer term, there may be blockages at the ditch itself which may need to be addressed, but the works already undertaken should allow the resurfacing work to go ahead (which does not require the road to be absolutely dry, though it clearly could not have gone ahead with some of the flooding levels that we have seen recently).
The resurfacing work itself has been delayed slightly by the knock on effect of weather-related delays to other works, but I understand that a crew will be on site, perhaps this afternoon or more likely tomorrow morning.
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