West Dunbartonshire Council staff are continuing to tackle the fall-out from Tuesday’s extreme weather.
Hundreds of employees have been handling housing repairs and temporary accommodation requests as well as clearing up the debris and preventing the threat of flooding.
We can provide the following update on this work:
- Housing currently have around 100 operatives working on emergency repairs and more than 150 requests will have been dealt with today alone. The majority of these are in the Clydebank area. The service is continuing to deal only with emergency repairs at present and all other work has been temporarily postponed.
- All residents unable to occupy their homes have been provided with either temporary homelessness accommodation or B&Bs, or made their own arrangements. We are actively identifying properties that will enable us to offer residents – particularly those with families – the option to move out of B&Bs and into more suitable accommodation.
- Our Lady and St. Patrick’s High – Thanks to the installation of Visqueen sheeting and as a result of a great deal of commitment from the janitorial and teaching staff we appear to have contained any major damage to the sixth floor classrooms. Scaffolding is being erected and skips are being delivered to the school today and temporary repairs will commence tomorrow and continue through the weekend. Subject to weather conditions over the weekend it is anticipated that the temporary repair will be completed on or by Monday.
- Whitecrook Primary – temporary roof works are ongoing and should be completed by Friday (subject to weather conditions)
- Braehead Primary - Temporary repairs will commence on Monday and be completed within a few days (subject to weather conditions)
- Dalreoch Primary – Temporary repairs will commence on Monday and be completed within a few days (subject to weather conditions)
- Kilpatrick School – Structural repairs required to gym hall roof. Gym to remain closed for time being.
- Yesterday saw the highest ever number of calls to the Council’s Contact Centre with 2194 calls made and 1474 answered. This was almost double the number of calls received during the winds of 8 December, 2011.
Residents are advised to contact their own insurers in the first instance for further guidance in situations where Council property has caused damage to their property.
The flood alert for West Central Scotland is no longer in force with SEPA predicting that the improving weather situation with no significant rain will cause levels in rivers and watercourses to drop with any flooding concerns easing.
This will be the last update on the storm damage unless the situation changes dramatically.
