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Written question asked by Maria Miller (Conservative) on Tuesday, 24 April 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 27 April 2007. It was answered by Ian Pearson (Labour) on Monday, 30 April 2007 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Sewage: Floods

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many incidents of sewer flooding where raw sewage has contaminated homes and property occurred in (a) England, (b) each English region and (c) each county in the last three years.
Answer

[holding answer 27 April 2007]: Ofwat is the economic regulator of the water and sewerage industry in England and Wales. It collects information from companies on internal and external sewer flooding each year by water and sewerage company area.The following table sets out the number of incidents of internal and external sewer flooding from public sewerage systems by company area in the last three years. The internal and external incidents include flooding to both household and non-household properties. Ofwat does not collect information showing the split of incidents between household and non-household properties. External incidents also include highway flooding incidents and incidents to open public spaces.

2003-04 2004-05 2005-06
Company Internal External Internal External Internal External
Anglian Water 127 3,137 172 2,621 188 1,178
Northumbrian 407 1,895 277 2,085 1,347 3,894
Severn Trent (who also supply parts of Wales) 686 4,912 808 3,285 725 3,477
South West 123 155 144 1,118 187 1,323
Southern 263 5,102 308 5,019 444 5,237
Thames 505 3,106 1,340 3,745 1,103 3,778
United Utilities 822 3,355 1,661 2,943 734 4,056
Wessex 93 3,309 137 3,244 96 1,643
Yorkshire 439 418 469 1,064 306 888
Total 3,465 25,389 5,316 25,124 5,130 25,474

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
134376; 459 c1435W
Session
2006-07
Subjects
Floods Sewage
Link
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