Purton Parish Council are calling on landowners to ‘keep Purton Moving’ by ‘Keeping water flowing’ this week, in a bid to encourage much needed clearing and ongoing maintenance of watercourses and ditches, following the extreme rainfall on 20th of October.

The action comes amidst a second named storm and causing flooding in the village, which has led to a number of local homes suffering the effects of flooding in their homes, outbuildings, gardens, access roads and on the highways.

In response, Purton Parish Council are actively working to support Wiltshire Council to gather data, to enable them to prioritise works and best allocate ‘Flood Warning’ signage and future government funding.

Key to future flooding prevention, is that water courses and ditches are able to carry and store the maximum amount of water, so Purton Parish Council is asking landowners to help their community and neighbours by ensuring that they are all kept clear. This they hope will  ‘Keep water flowing and keep Purton moving’.

Parish Clerk, Deborah Lawrence said:

Our residents are suffering the damage and distress of flooding. Our Community Emergency Volunteers are working hard to support our community and Emergency Services when we are impacted by flooding. We’d like to ask for landowners to do their bit and clear their ditches and watercourse to ‘Keep water flowing’ so everyone can ‘keep moving’ in the village. This simple action could make a real difference to everyone, including landowners, given the impacts of climate change.

Residents known to have been impacted by the effects of flooding have been contacted and those who have not, but who have suffered the impacts of flooding, have been asked to complete a brief survey available at this link:  Flooding Survey , so that information can be collated on the extent of flooding.