Moulton Seas End resident ‘kicks up big stink’ as broken culvert blocks water flow and floods Roman Bank garden

A determined resident has vowed to keep fighting for a solution to the flooding issues she is suffering at her home.

Tricia Day, 66, has lived at Roman Bank in Moulton Seas End for 25 years and reported the problem with the Seas End Road culvert some three years ago.

The culvert is a structure that channels water past an obstacle or to a subterranean waterway – but grey water has flooded her garden thanks to a collapsed brick arch which is blocking water flow underground.

Mrs Day said: “I have kicked up a big stink about it – what we need is something to be done – everyone’s having trouble.

“Waste is going down the pipe but not going under the road.

“Water is oozing out of the septic tank and onto the water already on the grass.”

Mrs Day is concerned that her three dogs could be affected and that the water is ‘unhygienic’ and said: “We have had so much rain – I would have been under water.

“The dogs are running in and out of the house and I have to wipe their feet and use carpet shampoo,” she added.

“When I pull the chain in the toilet you can hear is bubbling up in the shower.”

The owner of the field behind her house has reportedly been offered the finances to dig a ditch around it so that it eases the problem for Mrs Day.

She said: “The money has been there for a year but nothing has been done.

“I have no problem with the farmer – but in the meantime none of this is helping me.”

Having written to South Holland and The Deepings MP Sir John Hayes, a spokesman for Lincolnshire County Council has corresponded with Mrs Day to say they have adopted the problem.

The authority says it intends to start work during the next year to 'partially renew’ the culvert.

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Work will include the removal of the existing collapsed brick arch so that water flows can be restored under the highway – planned in collaboration with the internal Drainage Board.

She said correspondence from Sir John Hayes has been helpful in the matter by contacting LCC for ‘a definite commitment for a timeframe for the work.'

Mrs Day said: “The good news is that LCC has taken responsibility – but I shall hound them.

“Just help us – it is not only me – everyone has done their bit and contacted our MP.

“I don’t intend to give up.”

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