Foul water flood victim praises neighbours, minister and States Works staff

Tuesday 5th August 2008, 2:29PM BST.

LES BANQUES residents are still feeling the effects of Sunday’s sewage flood.

Jeanine Black (pictured), 64, lives in 3, Durrington Court, where the car park and garages were inches deep in liquid that flowed up from the neighbouring pumping plant.

‘It is very upsetting for all concerned – some were almost in tears. It was a great shock,’ she said. She moved into her first-floor flat in June. ‘It’s the poor people on the courtyard level who suffer most.’

‘One house on the ground floor had liquid flowing into the hall.’

Mrs Black, who is semi-retired due to ill health, was at church when the problem started.

Mrs Black thought States Works staff should be commended for their efforts to control the damage. She was also impressed by what Public Services minister Bernard Flouquet, who was at the scene until 1am, had to say.