"Sue & Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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James wrote in message
During the floods of last week, Thames water sewage plants couldn't
cope...and the backlog of untreated sewage filled the pipes, until it
burst
up and out of the drains... right into our back garden.

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I'm interested as I suspect we don't live far away from each other.
Luckily
the foods only got to within 300yds from our house but it was coming up
through the road drains in the next street.

We're on the Bucks/Oxon border. So I guess by the Thorpe Park/Chertsey stuff
we are a far way apart. It seems to be a common problem... and I wonder if
part of the cause may also be that in-fill building of houses is putting
extra pressure on existing sewer drains, and there are no upgrades occurring
to prevent this.

So additional housing is not only causing problems by building on Flood
plains... it is problematic no matter where the development takes
place......especially if there is insufficient planning/thought.