Drain cleansing goes deep

19 November 2008

Shropshire County Council has allocated additional resources to clear blocked gullies after the flooding in September 2008.

Normally, the council has four gully-empyting vehicles, but has hired an extra seven machines to increase the capacity for gully clearing. Floods this year and in 2007 were estimated to be more than one-in-200-year events, but road gullies are designed to deal with one-in-five-year floods.

John Everall, Shropshire’s cabinet member for environment and sustainability, said: ‘We are working to clear these gullies as quickly as possible and are taking a systematic approach.’

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