Her garden in Lancashire has flooded eight times in the last year
Her backyard in Lancashire has flooded 16 instances within the final yr (Image: Lancs Reside/MEN Media)

A pissed off lady whose backyard has flooded 16 instances in lower than a yr believes local weather change is essentially in charge.

Sue Eveleigh, from Whitworth in Lancashire, has endured flooding at her dwelling eight instances in January 2021, as soon as every in February and March, thrice in Might, as soon as in December, after which once more this yr, inflicting her fear and sleepless nights.

Water from a close-by area flows into her again backyard inflicting non permanent flooding, while it additionally runs from a drain on the entrance of her home into the driveway inflicting a ‘river’ to run down the highway.

‘It has been an inch or two deep around the partitions of the home, and it brings mud and stones down with it which acquire on the trail spherical the home,’ Sue defined.

‘It has triggered me lots of work, sweeping and shovelling up the mud and stones which have been washed down.

She added: ‘I've spent lots of time making an attempt to get one thing executed about it however to date I don’t really feel I've achieved something.’

Sue believes local weather change is ‘largely’ in charge for the flooding, and thinks there must be assist for the group to sort out the problem.

Flooding outside the home in Whitworth, Lancashire
Sue Eveleigh has endured flooding at her dwelling 16 instances since January 2021 (Image: Lancs Reside/MEN Media)
Flooding seen from a door
Sue has to clear away the water and particles herself (Image: Lancs Reside/MEN Media)
Muddy ground where it flooded
Lancashire County Council stated it prioritised its fund for indoor flooding (Image: Lancs Reside/MEN Media)

Lancashire County Council stated it was conscious of the problem and had suggested residents on measures they might take to mitigate the issue.

Nevertheless, it stated it prioritised its efforts on bettering areas that endure inner injury brought on by flooding.

A spokesperson stated: ‘We're conscious of a difficulty on Coupland Shut the place water naturally drains from non-public agricultural land which is at a better elevation, inflicting non permanent flooding to individuals’s gardens.

‘We're sympathetic to residents’ considerations, and have suggested them about measures they'll take to guard their properties, and minimise the impression ought to flooding happen, nonetheless we aren't conscious of any stories of this problem having triggered inner flooding to residents’ properties.

‘Because the lead native flood authority now we have to prioritise enhancements for areas the place there's a report of inner flooding to properties, and we are able to solely do that when an affordable resolution will be recognized to mitigate the problem which permits us to entry the funding obtainable.’

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