Heavy rain regularly results in sewage flooding the Harefield Road area in Rickmansworth in Herts. It floods out of the ground near a local primary school and blocks a main road; trapping local residents in their homes as they defend their property from the foul water. It also impacts a long term care home for adults and sheltered accommodation.

When the water is pumped away, a brown residue is left on the roads and footpaths posing a health hazard to pedestrians and children walking to nearby St Mary's Primary School.

We need everyone responsible to get together to find a permanent solution to this problem. As well as responding rapidly with road closures and support for vulnerable people we need other agencies to stop the flooding as quickly as possible and invest in the infrastructure which is failing.