Residents fury as rivers of sewage flood streets in 'over-developed' village

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Residents living in an 'over-developed' village are kicking up a stink as their streets have become flooded by "rivers of sewage" due to overflowing blocked drains.   Angry locals in Drakes Broughton, Worcs., say their village had tripled in size in the last 10 years due to newbuild developments of hundreds of homes.   They say sewage has been running down streets and into homes and gardens as the sewage system and infrastructure cannot cope with the extra demand.   Disgusted homeowners along Stonebow Road, where house prices average over £400,000, are now demanding action is taken over the 'serious health hazard'.

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00:00Ever since we've had a big influx of new housing built up around the Drakes, Broughton and

00:08Pershall area, we're all for new housing, you know, young families getting on the ladder,

00:12property ladder, but it's come to a point now where the amount of new builds that are

00:17just popping up everywhere, houses there, houses, getting easy, you know, just being

00:21agreed instantly without having a proper talk about it and approaching us locals, it's starting

00:26to have an effect now because basically since they've been building them, we've suffered

00:30nothing but drainage problems, floods, we've had human waste running down the road, we've

00:35had blocked drains, we've had human waste running under these two bungalows here, which

00:39I dug trial holes and I actually had my hands in it thinking it was stagnant water. When

00:44Seven Trent tested it, it came out to be pure human waste, which is not a nice story to

00:48know. Seven Trent then came out and then they dug this hole, they were here for three days,

00:55about five, six foot deep to locate a leak in the pipe here, because originally there

01:00used to be a water stream running straight down the centre of the road. Since they've

01:04been, they said they never discovered a leak, they couldn't find a leak, but since they've

01:09dug that hole and refilled it, we've got a big stream of constant water there and a big

01:14stream of constant water there, so it's literally doubled the leak and dispersed it two different

01:18ways. Down the other side of the road where I live is basically constant stagnant water

01:23running down the hill. In the hottest of summer, when it's bone dry, it's still soaking

01:28down the road and it must be washing away the soil somewhere underneath, you know, over

01:33time. So basically this is the problem and it's all due to crap drainage put on these

01:38new builds, they're just allowing the houses to go up, but they're not allowing for the

01:42drainage. Now everyone's complained, we've had, we've had meetings at the village all

01:46about it. Drainage problems, drainage problems, but money talks and if you can get them houses

01:52up quick, take the money and go, but it's not being looked into proper. There's big

01:57drainage problems in this village all surrounding. Now the new builds, all their drains ended

02:03up getting blocked and backfilling on themselves, right? What did they do? We found out a private

02:07water company was coming in large containers, sucking up the sewage from the new build drains

02:13and dumping it in our drains in our village. We've got proof of that as well on camera,

02:18but we put a stop to that because they were caught. So they were basically sucking up

02:22the waste, the problem that end and giving us the problem, this end and causing blockages.

02:26Now on Shrubbery Road, we've had the road literally come alive with human waste. If

02:31the drains are constantly up, seven trench will be down there now looking at it, but

02:35it's not solving the problem. And I think the underlying problem is this, all these

02:40new houses being built, the drainage is not right. It's not coping and we're taking the

02:46brunt of it. And this is what it's doing.

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