Residents of Kilham are still experiencing sewage problems - four months after heavy rain caused ground water levels to swell and burst throught drains.
Now two of the village’s ward councillors, Jonathan Owen and Jane Evison, have said enough is enough and have called on Yorkshire Water to do more to help alleviate the problems.
Despite many phone calls from residents to Yorkshire Water asking for action to be taken to address sewage problems, the councillors said it would appear that little was being done by the company to bring about improvements.
Couns Evison and Owen have already formed a flood liaison committee, which all partners, including representatives from the parish councils, attend with a view to identifying problems and putting together an action plan to ensure work is undertaken.
Coun Evison said: “The extremely high rainfall has brought problems to a number of parishes in our ward and I would expect East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Yorkshire Water and the Environment Agency to work together to help those effected. In recent weeks I have been very concerned by the lack of support and action from Yorkshire Water in Kilham and it has unfortunately been necessary to put pressure on at the highest level to obtain the response we would expect. I am pleased to say that would appear to be happening now and this week YW have been out in the village with ERYC officers to put in place some actions that will alleviate problems short term whilst all parties can seek long term solutions through our flood liaison action plan”.
Coun Owen said: ”We have raised our concerns regarding the lack of consistent response and action from Yorkshire Water with ERYC’s chief executive.”