A burst sewage pipe in Ross-on-Wye led to a foul-smelling flood at the Caroline Symonds Garden last week.

The Town Clerk, Sarah Robson, told the Ross Gazette that the Town Council were first made aware of some standing water on Thursday, February 16th, but it was believed that it was not polluted.

The following day, however, people contacted the Town Council, reporting that the pool had become much larger, and there was a cloudy film on the surface of the water, which led people to believe that it was, indeed, sewage.

The Council contacted Dwr Cymru Welsh Water who sent an emergency team. Richard Mayo, a Ross Town Councillor and Herefordshire County Councillor, pictured right, also went to the scene to assess the damage

He told the Gazette that Welsh Water attended very quickly, once they realised the scale of the problem.

Cllr Mayo added that he was concerned that the forthcoming Bands in the Park, a series of concerts that the Town Council organise at the Band Stand, could be affected.

A Welsh Water spokesperson commented: “We were alerted to a leak on our waste water network on the main in the Riverside Inn area of Ross-on-Wye.

“We immediately dispatched a team, who isolated the leak to be coming from our main underneath the bridge serving Wilton Road.”

Red the full story in this week’s Ross Gazette