Heavy rainfall causes sewers to flood in Romford
Heavy rainfall caused a sewer to flood in Brooklands Walk, Romford in 2019. - Credit: Havering Council
Heavy rainfall over the weekend caused raw sewage to overflow into a Romford street.
Havering Council reported the sewage leak in Brooklands Walk to Thames Water on Friday, December 20.
The council tweeted: "Due to the heavy rain, raw sewage is overflowing from drains in Brooklands Walk, (off North Street, next to Matalan).
"Avoid if possible. We hope that @thameswater will be able to rectify this shortly."
Thames Water engineers told the Recorder that the site was cleared after rainfall diluted the wastewater.
A spokesman said: "Due to the large volume of sustained rain, one of our sewers flooded over the weekend.
"Our engineers were quickly on site to clear up the heavily diluted wastewater."