Residents of Norfolk towns and villages are grappling with repeated sewage discharges that flood their streets, posing health risks and damaging property. Anglian Water and the Environment Agency are accused of neglecting the issue.
Locals across north-east Norfolk said they are forced to tread through 'vile, disgusting' wastewater flooding their streets. Residents in Norfolk towns and villages have said that water containing “faeces and tissue paper” has been flooding their streets and damaging their properties after repeated sewage discharges. They are forced to tread through “vile, disgusting” wastewater flooding their streets, accusing Anglian Water and the Environment Agency of “brushing the issue under the carpet”.
“You see discoloration of the water, tissue paper, stools in the water. Rice said that sewage discharges in the Broads, which is a special area of conservation, pose a threat to “crustaceans, fish and birds”. the flooding has damaged his business’s facilities and sparked health concerns over the contaminants in the water. “When we had flooding for six months between October 2023 and the end of March 2024, it was very detrimental to the business.“We had our wellies on, but we were treading through wastewater. But when you walk, you splash, water comes up, it might hit you and there could be contaminants in it.He added: “It was detrimental to the boatyard. It has caused sinkholes and we have to keep sandbags in them to fill them up. “We’ve lost land to the flooding and we will have to raise the land a bit higher, but we have got to do it our ourselves. We’re very much restricted to one section of our boatyard.”Despite the difficulties faced by local residents, Elliot said the issues of flooding and sewage has “just been put under the carpet again” and urged Anglian Water and the Environment Agency to take more precautionary measures to warn people of floods and discharges.“In an ideal world, you’d imagine that if something like that happens, they’d go to the council and say we’ve had an unfortunate spil
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