'Loo paper' and 'what looks like condoms' were visible in the water, says the MP in a video.
Surrey MP, Chris Coghlan, said his constituents had complained before about sewage in their local river, the Liberal Democrat MP for Dorking and Horely Chris Coghlan said that sewage was "spraying" out of a broken manhole cover, just yards from the River Thames tributary in Brockham.Thames Water said it had responded to reports of "external sewer flooding" on 6 January and apologised to those affected.
Coghlan said residents were fed up after repeatedly trying to get Thames Water to fix the problem.'We're a little upstream from the stepping stones where many people would love to bring their kids to paddle but they just can't because this sewage is being dumped into the river."storm discharge activityIn separate incidents, one storm overflow in Chertsey was discharging as of 8:00 GMT on Friday, meaning sewage could be in the River Bourne.
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