Jill’s solution to garden flooding

A former Whitnash woman who now lives in Florida thinks she may have the solution to Peter Wright’s garden flooding problems (Courier June 21).
MHLC-17-06-13 Hole in garden Jun70
Peter Wright and his wife have a lot of water coming up from the ground in their garden and it's affecting surrounding properties as well. They have had Severn Trent engineers have a look at it and not found any leaks and a WDC flood risks officer has also been to see it. Mr Wright has dug a hole so he can keep emptying water, but it keeps coming and it is ruining his garden.
Pictured,Peter Wright and Town Cllr Kitty Crutchley .MHLC-17-06-13 Hole in garden Jun70
Peter Wright and his wife have a lot of water coming up from the ground in their garden and it's affecting surrounding properties as well. They have had Severn Trent engineers have a look at it and not found any leaks and a WDC flood risks officer has also been to see it. Mr Wright has dug a hole so he can keep emptying water, but it keeps coming and it is ruining his garden.
Pictured,Peter Wright and Town Cllr Kitty Crutchley .
MHLC-17-06-13 Hole in garden Jun70 Peter Wright and his wife have a lot of water coming up from the ground in their garden and it's affecting surrounding properties as well. They have had Severn Trent engineers have a look at it and not found any leaks and a WDC flood risks officer has also been to see it. Mr Wright has dug a hole so he can keep emptying water, but it keeps coming and it is ruining his garden. Pictured,Peter Wright and Town Cllr Kitty Crutchley .

Jill Barton, 80, who lived in Harrow Road, Whitnash, during the 1930s, said there was a large pond at the bottom of a drive in Harrow Road at the time.

Peter Wright, who now lives in Harrow Road, is trying to find out why water is coming up from the ground and flooding his garden.

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He says the problem is now so bad he can fill up buckets out of a hole he has dug every half an hour.

He has called out engineers from Severn Trent and a flood risk officer from Warwick District Council but no-one has so far been able to solve the problem.

Mrs Barton, whose maiden name was Percox, said: I remember Reg Franklin’s farm on Harrow Road. His wife used to teach elocution - that’s how I knew the family.

“I used to live close by. There was a pond at the bottom of the drive. It was quite large. As children, we were frightened to go up the road.

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“On one side of the bottom, it never dried up. We were always told we must not go on that side of the pond. There was a well there.

“I left Whitnash when I was 25, but I returned to Tachbrook when I was 75. My mother has always lived there. I have lived in Florida, USA, for three or four years.”