A fed up Lanarkshire pensioner has blamed road drains for inflicting his basement to start out leaking in water.
Danny Smith, of Coldstream Drive in Rutherglen, has been left exasperated by continuous issues at any time when there's heavy rain fall.
The 83-year-old believes that road drains close to to his residence are frequently overflowing, sending water in direction of his cellar.
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South Lanarkshire Council (SLC) insist the drains are to not blame, however have promised road works anyway.
Danny informed Lanarkshire Reside that he needed to repair the issue by asking a non-public firm to hold out repairs in his residence.
He informed us : "This has been occurring for some time now.
"At any time when there's heavy rain and the drain floods, it comes via there, out into my driveway and it floods into my cellar.
"I've phoned the council up, however they've nonetheless not been out again about it, so I needed to name an organization to attempt to type the cellar and repair there.
"I am on the lowest level on the street so I get all of the water that is available in - I dread checking the cellar once I see the drains are overflowing as a result of I do know there'll issues.
"After I phoned them they did not appear to trouble their shirt tails about getting again to me.
"The drains at all times get stuffed up, and also you ended up with garbage and grime popping out."
SLC have now promised to make sure the drains on the highway, and on close by Lauder Drive, are working accurately.
Colin Park, SLC's head of roads and transportation, mentioned: “Mr Smith contacted us not too long ago concerning a blocked gully on Coldstream Drive.
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"We discovered some standing water on the other aspect of the highway however no floor water mendacity exterior the property.
"There is no such thing as a hyperlink between highway drains and the property’s cellar however we'll clear the gullies on each side of the highway to make sure the highway drainage system is absolutely operational, and we'll proceed to observe it."
The native authority has additionally promised to contact Scottish Water to make sure the road is included of their inner flooding register so that they test all their equipment on the locus, and never solely the water most important, to make sure that it isn't the reason for flooding.
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