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A number of people in the Stoke Newington area complained that a similar
occurrence happened in 1965 when serious flooding affected them and that on
a number of occasions since then the roads had become flooded after heavy
rain.
Many of the old sewers in this area are inadequate to deal with abnormal
rain-fall and the Council's long-term plans for re-sewering this area have
been outlined to them by Officers of the Council at a public meeting.
Work on the bore-holes for a new £10,000,000 storm-water relief sewer
has already begun and it will be the responsibility of the new Thames Water
Authority to implement this scheme over the next few years.