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Sewage leak at mobile homes releases toilet roll from drains

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 07:00

By Charlie Smith - Local Democracy Reporter

Toilet roll has been left strewn across a mobile home park after sewage leaked from beneath a manhole cover.

Drains overflowed on Sunday after heavy rain at Nook Park, a park home estate in Great Horwood near Milton Keynes.

Anglian Water has been made aware of the sewage leak and has promised to send an engineer out by today (October 17) at the latest.

A representative of the water firm confirmed that the sewage leak is in a “public place” and is “currently overflowing”.

Pictures taken at the weekend show waterlogged mobile home pitches and tissue paper strewn through a ditch near bushes.

Some of Nook Park’s 12 tenants told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that residents’ mobile homes are not affected and that there is “no smell” from the leak.

The leak, the second in several months, took place on land owned by Buckinghamshire Council near the entrance to Nook Park.

Bucks Council has been notified of the incident, with one resident writing directly to the council leader Martin Tett.

In her letter, she warned that “sewage might possibly spill onto the park” due to a ditch by the manhole cover being filled in after shrubs were recently ripped out and dumped there.
 

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