Bad resource management
After paying fifty pounds plus for a serviced pitch just to make things easier for a few days I didn’t expect to share it with the site.
On the water connection I always fit a double outlet one side for the caravan and the other to fill drinking water containers as out of preference prefer not drink straight from caravan system so not best pleased to find the site had connected a dirty hose to my drinking water side to supply a sprinkler, who cares if the grass is green or brown.
But with the shortage of such a precious resource and cost to members who already pay high prices to sites that only provide toilets showers and a patch of grass or gravel , maximum cost for minimum services first and last time this year with CAMC club sites.
As a sprinkler can use around 1000 ltr an hour not acceptable when some were left on day and night and spraying not only grass but awnings cars and caravans .
Members did the sensible thing and turned them off .
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As far as I am aware you are paying for exclusive use of that water point so you would have been in the right to disconnect said sprinkler system. In addition they presumably didn't have your permission to use your splitter.
A stupid waste of a resource when everyone knows there is a problem with water shortages at the moment.
If it had been spraying my/caravan/awning/car I would have complained to site staff.
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Did you raise your point with the site staff at the time? The first point of contact with a complaint is the people working the site. Interestingly you mention that "members did the sensible thing and turned them off" Why didn't you if you were worried about the waste of water?
JK
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I was the first one others followed I am also a member .
It may have been a directive from head office and not site managers decision as I assume sprinklers are supplied by the club.
As the problem was solved by members decided leave it there, and one of the site staff who came to collect the disconnected sprinkler from my pitch while I was enjoying a nice cold beer never made enquiries how it became inoperative or why, least said sooner mended.
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But it's not a case of least said sooner mended surely as you've taken to posting your issue on an open forum, I presume to gather peoples opinion? You've said you found it a problem that someone put a dirty hose onto your tap along with your opinion the waste of water as you didn't care if the grass wasn't green. Yet you sat with your cold beer and watched the hose being taken away without a word. I really find that odd to be honest.
Sprinklers are not supplied directly from the club and keeping the grass green is not a directive from head office.
Site staff are members too, not that has anything to with it.
JK
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I fully agree with the fact of water wastage for established grass, especially for the purpose of looking green, but wonder if it was a service pitch newly created this year (as quite a few sites are increasing their quotas?), so may have been an attempt to save new turf? Paying £50+ a night, the staff should have had the curtesy to have at least asked before connecting to the supply! 🤷♀️ JK - Not everyone is comfortable about questioning site staff for not knowing what kind of reaction they’d receive. They are paying for the privilege of being there, not being paid! No one knows what is potentially going on in other peoples lives to know what upset it could cause them by doing so, when alls they may want is to just sit outside their outfit with a cold beer or glass of wine being anonymous and watch the world go by 👍
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Looks like an Englishman’s tap is considered part of his temporary castle.
Context is all. Scottish or Welsh site? Doubt there will be too much issue with water there. England? Some places, mainly SE, have hosepipe bans in place, other areas, whilst no ban in place, are asking folks to conserve water.
Or, was it for H&S. was the grass being watered to stop potential fire spread across tinder dry grass and adjacent shrubbery. Water said greenery, or ban the BBQ’s
We’ll never know I guess🤷♀️
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Whatever the reason, I guess the OP's glad he started the thread😄
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Also there is the saying "if you are not prepared to stick your head above the parapet and do speak to those in charge "why go to a public forum and rant about what could have been resolved at a local level
- So many "Reviews?"follow the same pattern 🤔
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For numerous reasons many people are very uncomfortable dealing face to face with “authority”. Writing about their experience anonymously is sometimes the only way that they can express their feelings. To call their comments a rant does not help and is tantamount to bullying. It hardly makes this forum the safe place it claims to be.
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