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Flooding hits Central Bedfordshire
Cottage and roads saturated in two towns
Firefighters, police and drainage engineers were called to Chronicle Country roads in the early hours of today (Thursday) to deal with flooding.
Coppice Mead in Stotfold was closed temporarily while firefighters tackled water levels that reached a foot in height in some places, while officers from Central Bedfordshire Council spoke to residents.
The garden and interior of a family's 19th century thatched cottage were also flooded, after Pix Brook burst its banks.
The brook, part of which runs behind the cottage's garden, overflowed when an underpass between Coppice Mead and Brook Street became clogged with debris.
Engineers from the Bedford Group of Drainage Boards, which maintains the brook, worked through the early hours of the morning to unblock pipes that run through the underpass.
Residents in Coppice Mead and Brook Street were woken up by car alarms, and one man's vehicle was saturated as the road flooded.
Just before 7.30am there were also reports of flooding in Stotfold Road, Arlesey.
Firefighters from Bedfordshire Luton Fire and Rescue Service (BLFRS) and officers from Central Bedfordshire Council attended, and found that flood water had come close to entering three properties in the road.
BLFRS used sandbags to help protect the homes.
For the full story see the Biggleswade Chronicle of Friday, August 27.
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Tuesday 14 February 2012
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