It rained heavily in Brussels tonight. Pounding rain for about ten minutes that soaked my balcony flowers and was a welcome relief to a soil that has not had rain in a couple of weeks.
That said, anyone would think the garden spoil would be perfect to cope with a heavy rainfall, absorbing everything easily. But this is Loft Ransfort, and gardens do not work this way.
The Loft Ransfort complex has a serious flooding problem. It has been a constant for years and has never been given any attention by management. The flooding appears instantly with any short, decent rainfall. Clearly, the heavier the rain, the worse the flooding.
The corridor that runs through most of the ateliers will flood and remain flooded for days afterwards. It is an easy issue to resolve, but management has little interest in the problem as it does not affect any member of the nid des amis.
The second flooding is the patio garden. Two key flooding points feature here. The garden has had over eight cubic meters of fresh soil added to the clay base here, and this should not be happening. But, of course, the garden has been so poorly developed over the years that any advantage given by the fresh soil has been greatly lessened – and the plants being put into the ground are insufficient to cope with the floods.
In turn, the flooding is happening at the very entrance to one of the ateliers here and water damage will eventually happen.
But, each and every year, each and every season, the grounds will flood badly, time and time again. And, with each flooding, management will do nothing competent to resolve the issue… Today there was one management member in the garden trying to dig a trough from the flood waters to the tree. It was almost funny – but demonstrates clearly that management does not know the cause of the flooding, or how to stop it.
Now, with a first rainfall done, if there are further rains, the flooding is going to get far, far worse every time. But this is Loft Ransfort. Tis is the patio garden. Neither the house, not the management, cares about this patch of land – it was abandoned to the control of just two residents.
What is certain is, if this situation were in the main garden, where the nid des amis actually care about the property, a solution would have been found years ago.
Unfortunately, this is not a new story. From October last year. Flooding remains a constant in the patio garden
Loft Ransfort is where I live and this is not the most pleasant of places to live. Now, along with the verbal abuse and physical attacks, the property here is steadily decaying. With every rainfall, the space floods. But managem,ent does not care about the patio space, so, even though the ground is being destroyed and property damaged, nothing changes here. Management stays within a select group of people and if you cross them, you will be abused and attacked. That is my life here.
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