A family in Guildford has been dealing with untreated sewage flooding their garden for the past 18 months whenever it rains moderately. The sewage contains harmful bacteria and poses health risks. The family has taken measures to prevent it from entering their house.
When Martin Greenbank moved into his home in Guildford 15 years ago, he thought it was just right for his growing family. Near a good state secondary school, and with a blooming back garden, where daffodils spring up beneath a cooking apple tree, and lavender and shrubs border his proudly maintained lawn. It would be the perfect place for his children to play - or so he thought.
Because, for the last 18 months, 'every time it rains moderately', untreated sewage bursts out of a manhole cover in his back garden, streams across the lawn, along the patio and out through the back gate. 'We get all the foul stuff - effluent, toilet roll, wet wipes, poo dumped in our garden,' he says. 'It stinks.' The only reason it didn't come into the house again in February is because he had placed sandbags outside to stop it from happening again. Untreated sewage can be riddled with diseases like e.coli and salmonella, and it only takes a few cells to enter your body to make you ill. Mr Greenbank and his wife aren't letting their three children use the back garden for the time bein
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