{"id":493839,"date":"2026-03-25T04:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493839\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:38:26","slug":"project-starts-to-stop-sewage-flooding-gardens-in-norton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493839\/","title":{"rendered":"Project starts to stop sewage flooding gardens in Norton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also campaigned for the main flood defences, which were &#8220;brilliant&#8221;, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve saved maybe 150 houses from being flooded inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This was just the last piece of the jigsaw that they hadn&#8217;t sorted out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The local sewer network carries both wastewater and surface water flows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a result, it becomes overwhelmed by rain water which would previously have run into the River Derwent, before the flood wall was installed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sewage then overflows through drainage systems in gardens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is only prevented from entering homes by temporary pumping systems, Keal said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They have to put tankers out there and basically suck out the sewers 24\/7 to just get the sewage away and stop it going into people&#8217;s properties.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She also campaigned for the main flood defences, which were &#8220;brilliant&#8221;, she said. &#8220;They&#8217;ve saved maybe 150 houses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}