Hanwell Bursts its Banks!!!

[admin]

[resident1]

What a day the 20th July was in 2007, 2 houses saved from the effects of water runnoff due to the drains being unable to cope on the south side of the road by the castle walls. sandbags collected by residents from the council, and the highways dept delivered more sand bags and provided cones and the police provided some signs and cones.
the pictures do not really show how bad it was, the sand bags helped divert water into the storm drains on the northern side of the road, which is able to cope, this alleviated the strain on the double culvert by the 2 properties adjacent to the pub. the drains around the water trough also failed to cope. The council and oxfordshire highways are aware but seem to be unable to do anything.
the small stream on the way out of the vilage towards the Southam road burst its banks and claimed several vehicular victims. We were lucky that no homes we severely damaged and that is all due to the actions of a few.
thank goodness for some village spirit
A big thank you to those few involved..... you know who you are!

[bob]

as one of the people who had to deal with the flooding or should i say avoiding the flooding on friday collecting sand bags cleaning out drains  putting up road signs etc etc . also taking them down afterwards i hope this problem will  not happen again .this is the 4th time we have had to go and clean the drains out to stop the houses from being flooded. it has been reported to the council and nothing seems to get done . its a problem that we can do without this end of the village or should we just let the two houses get flooded to prove the point .i dont think so do you so again we will get in touch with the council watch this space but dont hold your breath

[the oldies]

 
   Colin & Sheila(Stonebrook) would like to take this opportunity of thanking Richard and Bob for all their hard work in preventing the flooding of our residence last week, Their hard work was endless over a period of many hours.

In addition, thanks also is due to Pippa for her offer of assistance during that critical period.

Thanks again to all those above.

Colin & Sheila

[NIXON-ECKERSALL]

The whole village should be grateful for the efforts of Richard and Bob in preventing the flood in Main Street from doing any damage. In awful weather, they worked tirelessly for all of us. Well done.