Severn Trent Under Fire in Floods Crisis Inquiry Report
Birmingham Post › November 20, 2007
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Utility companies need to invest urgently in flood defences at power stations and sewage works to avoid a repeat of this summer's flooding crisis in Gloucestershire, a new report recommends.
Thousands of homes were left without running water or electricity after a month's worth of rain fell in just 12 hours - submerging two key substations and a water treatment plant in the process.See the full content of this document
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Severn Trent Under Fire in Floods Crisis Inquiry Report
It prompted the largest peacetime operation seen in the country since the end of the Second World War, as millions of litres of water were drafted into the county.
A two-month inquiry by the county counci...See the full content of this document
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