Three weeks after parts of Ewell Village was flooded the water remains with no sign of a solution.

The floodwater half covers the road outside Bourne Hall Park in High Street and water has had to be pumped out of nearby basements.

The flood still covers the war memorial and a bus shelter stands forlornly in several feet of water.

Sandra Watson, 65, of Meadow Walk, Ewell, said she has contacted Epsom and Surrey County Councils because the spring itself remains blocked with rubbish.

Mrs Watson said: "There’s nowhere for the water to go because the weir is blocked with cans and crisp packets. The blockage needs to be dealt with. It’s absolute chaos between the flooding and the gas works.

"We can’t walk there. We have to walk through Bourne Hall to get to our local shops. It’s been like this for weeks now. I haven’t seen anyone there doing anything about it."

In response an Epsom Council spokesman said: "We clear that rubbish out regularly. That's not what has caused the flooding, I can assure you of that. The spring is not blocked.

"The weir may have cans caught up in it but that is not causing any flooding."

Brian Angus, chairman of Ewell Village Residents' Association, said rainwater and spring water, from rainfall on Epsom Downs, is rising faster than the pipes can carry it away.

Mr Angus said: "Road drains are blocked. It seems frustratingly simple to clear the drain or lower the sluice that would unflood that bus stop."

Councillor Eber Kington, who represents Ewell Court ward, said there has been a long-standing flooding problem on the other side of the road from the current flooding.

Coun Kington said: "It has been tackled but has not been fully resolved to such an extent that residents in my division have approached me. Of course it's now on the other side."

Last week an Epsom Council spokesman said blocked water channels and rubbish blocking the outlets, which are cleared monthly, had caused flooding in the past.

But he said: "All outlets channels and areas prone to blockage have been checked in the last couple of days and are all free flowing and clear."

He said the water table level is extremely high due to unprecedented rain, which had caused the overflowing of the lake fed by an underground spring.

He said: "The high water table has also led to the flooding of several basements in the area some of these are being pumped out into the street adding to the surface water.

"The overflow pipe next to the mill has been opened to allow more water away."

He said that there were discussions about designing a new weir that could be altered to allow larger amounts of water out of the lake last year.

But he said: "At the moment, the water level is higher than the weir and surrounding banks and walls and is flowing into the Horse Pond - therefore removing the weir at this time in time would have no effect."

A Surrey County Council spokeswoman said: "The water normally drains off to the spring but because it is so high it cannot do that.

"The drains get full of water so it cannot go there either. It’s not deep. It’s something that happens once in a 100 years.

"That’s what we are having at the moment. If the flooding is still there we cannot investigate it."

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