Sandbags
Sent to Rutland County Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 7551920.
Hi. I live on 19 Melton Road and my house has flooded twice now. Once in October 2023 and second time in January 2025. The council haven’t taken any action to prevent this so a local resident has taken action himself. He has built a sandbag wall by the river. However I am concerned this has not been done correctly and the sandbags won’t be effective. I am also concerned that if a flood happens again that the water pressure will knock these over and cause a tidal wave of water towards the houses and onto the road. Please can someone assess this? Remove the sandbags if in not appropriate and take actual action to build a defence or gullies or drainage to prevent flooding from occurring.
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We have now inspected by the highways team under the category that this was reported. This is actually the responsibility of another department and this has been passed to them for further investigation and potential action.
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