‘You’ve ruined our road’: Villagers blast water company after two years of leaks
Residents along a south Shropshire village road have slammed Severn Trent Water for failing to sort out a leaking mains pipes for more than two years.
Residents living along Broome Road in Craven Arms, said they first contacted the water firm two years ago, when water began flooding the road.
Bernard Rose, who lives on Broome Road said: “Between Broome and Aston on Clun a distance of a quarter of a mile the pipe was constantly bursting.
“It got so bad, water was running down the road. We kept escalating reports of the leak to Severn Trent who would keep telling us ‘You haven't been forgotten’.”
He said the water firm had made repairs on at least five occasions, closing the road and hampering access for residents, but never fixed the source of the issues.
He added that last month, Seven Trent sent an engineer out who identified what Mr Rose said was the source of the leaking mains pipe, and contractors were sent to fix it.
