>> Sounds odd to me - wouldn't they just change the connection to the one pipe
>> upstream?
Possible that companies A & B have different standards for piping. Or maybe topography is a factor and the 'fall' was wrong. A long dead friend of my Mother's was fond of the saying God only knows (pause) and he's not telling.
Water supply and waste water disposal, while generally simple, can be a mish mash.
I did a few years on project funded by one of the very big water companies. Our job was to interview customers, and check they were getting the right benefits and that they were on the best tariff for their usage.
Most places our funder did both the supply and the waste. Easy peasy. In some places it did the supply but one of the other big companies did the waste (or vv). So customers had to be directed to contact Severn Trent, Thames or whatever as well. That sort of split was usually down to how infrastructure was allocated in 1974 when water supply was removed from local government.
There are also places where other outfits do the supply. The used to be small and very local, Three Rivers was one, Rickmansworth another. Many have been bought out by Affinity but others, Essex for example still plowed their own furrow.
Every company has to have a Social Tariff for low income but they're all different. A mess that needs solving.
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