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Inquiry as homes face flood threat
AN INVESTIGATION is to be carried out into how water flooded from an old pit tip towards an exclusive housing development in a South Yorkshire village.
Rotherham Council officials said they would look into the problem, at the former Treeton Colliery, which happened during heavy rain three weeks ago and threatened new 300,000 properties built on the site of the mine.
The investigation was confirmed at a meeting of Treeton Parish Council.
Coun Gordon Payne, who lives in a nearby home on Shorland Drive, said: "Water rushed off the tip and then flowed between some of these houses, flooding one and surrounding others, with the owners erecting barriers to prevent the water going into the houses.
"If it had not stopped raining so quickly a lot of these other houses could have been flooded."
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