Water burst onto nearby streets and homes for hours
Neighbours who swept water away for hours and lost belongings in a flood caused by a broken pipe are still awaiting an apology over the incident. A major Severn Trent pipe was damaged by "third party contractors on a construction site building new student accommodation" near High Road, Chilwell, early on Tuesday, March 7, which led to a large amount of water bursting onto nearby streets and homes for hours.
"I got here at 1.30pm and there was water in the street. It was not that deep at that point but it worsened significantly in the space of 30 minutes. "All the carpets will have to come up and our landlord says the repairs will take around four months, during which we won't be able to use 20 percent of the house. It could have been a lot worse, though, my neighbour's house was knee-deep in water and houses on Gwenbrook Avenue were directly hit by water and the bricks it threw up."
Mr Gorham added: "We still haven't heard anything from the developers or contractors, no apology or even just a visit to see if we need anything. I don't think we will now." "Eventually the water went all the way past the house, through the garden and into the next door's garden. I had to drive and pick up my wife to help and we piled bags of coal against the door to stop it when it got into the porch.
"I thought the council had come to clean up after it happened, but it was one of my mum's neighbours."
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