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Residents of a village were left disgusted when raw sewage started bubbling up onto their street.
The "garden pond full of sewage" was seen on the corner of Ashby Road and Iveshead Road in Shepshed, near Loughborough. Severn Trent has said sorry to locals and confirmed that a team was "on-site to investigate the cause of the issue." However, John Eckersley, who lives nearby, was shocked when he was told it could take five days to fix the problem.
He reported the spill to Severn Trent on Wednesday, January 24 and felt there was "no great urgency" towards it. He said: "It's on my regular dog-walking route. [With] the weather being windy and rainy, it [the smell] wasn’t too bad. When you see the state of it is bad. If you think of a garden pond full of sewage.
“It’s obviously bubbling up into that pool from somewhere. So it’s bubbling onto the pavement and then going down the road into another drain. I was very surprised to see it. But I'm absolutely stunned that it's really of no great urgency [to Severn Trent].
“I had a conversation with them that they would go to it in five days. So they didn’t really have much urgency. In a previous job I used to clean toilets out on canal boats and we were terrified of leaving anything like that out.”
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Sewage ran down the street in the Charnwood village (John Eckersley)Daniel Borst from Severn Trent said: "We would like to apologise to residents of Ashby Road for the sewer flooding that they've experienced. Any type of flooding can be distressing, and a team is already on site to investigate the cause of the issue, get it resolved as quickly as possible and undertake a thorough cleanse of the affected area."
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