Emergency services have resorted power to an electricity substation as flood water threatened to cut off the power to thousands of home across Gloucestershire.
Chief constable of Gloucestershire police, Tim Brain, described the efforts as “superhuman” and said that ” the crisis was past just before midnight, and it has continued to function and supply electricity to the Gloucester area and beyond”.
However, he was keen to express that the emergency was not over, saying “water is still high around Walham and there is a prospect of further peaks and the problem of retained water in the Severn basin is going to give problems for several days to come”.
Meanwhile, 140,000 homes still remain without water in the area, following flooding at the water treatment works, at Mythe. Alan Payne from Severn Trent water said “We’re doing everything we can to address that as a priority and we have two to three million litres of bottled water a day being delivered to Cheltenham Racecourse to be distributed by the military at 17 centres”. “We currently have 490 bowsers here and another 270 are on their way. We will have 900 here by 6am tomorrow”.
