Floods In Norfolk 2013. 10/03/2013, Happisburgh, Whimpwell Street. Rosd Closed due to flooding.
Help on way to Happisburgh where flooding “back to square one” today
Alex Hurrell, Reporter
Monday, March 11, 2013
12:43 PM
Help is again on its way to Happisburgh where Whimpwell Street residents have spent the weekend struggling to protect properties from flooding.
A Norfolk County Council tanker spent from 8.30pm last night until 3.30am today trying to pump water off the road and out of a pond after a holiday home in the street flooded.
A second council tanker had also spent four hours at the scene yesterday, according to county councillor Paul Morse, who was among those who rang the council for help over the weekend and again today. But he said this morning: “We’re back to square one. I have been told that another crew is on its way.”
Water was continuing to pour off the surrounding fields and could not escape down a drain in nearby Lighthouse Close because it was blocked by tree roots, said Mr Morse.
Parish council chairman Glen Berry said he and other Happisburgh residents were doing their best to clear the drain to ease the situation.
The waterlogged house is owned by a couple from Essex who are in their 80s and were not staying in the cottage at the time.
Mr Berry and a team of neighbours spent much of the weekend trying to protect homes by clearing water away.
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I notice that in comparison with the Fens many Norfolk villages are very slack about keeping their ditches cleaned out and draining properly. In the days when villages had their own roadmen and parish councils were comprised of people with a bit of practical common sense matters were looked after.Now no one knows who is responsible for what nor thinks to find out and get things in order until it is too late. Even when responsibility should be clear bodies such as the EA, and councils shuffle matters to and fro rather than actually do something. I know of one village where the drains around some of the houses haven't been dug out for decades-they are there for a reason and presumably in wet periods the surface water must be higher than necessary.
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Monday, March 11, 2013