Fixed
Drain completely silted up & road collapsing into verge
Reported via desktop in the Gully category by Karen Donald at 15:36, Wed 2 July 2025
Sent to Aberdeenshire Council less than a minute later. Council ref: 915424.
Water unable to drain away as drain completed silted up. The road surface is breaking up & road appears to be collapsing into verge. During periods of heavy rain, the road completely floods. A channel in the verge has been cut out in the past to drain water off the road,.
Updates
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Thank you for letting us know about this issue. We will now investigate and provide you with an update within the next 7 days.
You can find out more about our road maintenance on our website at www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/roads-and-travel/roads/maintenance.
Posted by Aberdeenshire Council at 15:36, Wed 2 July 2025
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We’ve had a look at the issue and we have now passed your enquiry to our local Roads Team to assess what can be done to resolve the matter. We’ll let you know when that assessment has taken place.
Thanks again for your report
State changed to: Action scheduled
Posted by Aberdeenshire Council at 15:45, Wed 2 July 2025
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We’re currently developing our approach to displaying priorities and target completion times to keep residents better informed. In the meantime, we’ll continue to assess the level of risk and allocate resources based on urgency, location, and the availability of repair teams.
This defect has been added to our works programme and will be scheduled accordingly.
Thank you for your patience while we carry out this work.
State changed to: Planned
Posted by Aberdeenshire Council at 16:57, Thu 3 July 2025
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We’ve issued this work out to one of our crews - we’ll let you know when the job is complete.
State changed to: In progress
Posted by Aberdeenshire Council at 09:19, Wed 16 July 2025
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Category changed from ‘Drain/Ditch’ to ‘Gully’
Posted by Aberdeenshire Council at 11:35, Fri 14 November 2025
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The issue you reported has now been resolved.
Depending on the nature and scope of the initial enquiry, the necessary repairs will have been carried out either by our frontline maintenance crews or, in some cases, completed directly by one of our inspectors during their site visit.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention and helping us maintain a safe and well-managed road network.
State changed to: Fixed
Posted by Aberdeenshire Council at 11:35, Fri 14 November 2025
This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location.