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13/12/2005
Minister agrees compensation payments for Ormeau residents
Regional Development Minister Shaun Woodward has confirmed that residents in the lower Ormeau Road area of Belfast affected by recent flooding are to be compensated.
The compensation, which will be paid before Christmas, comes a day after residents went to Stormont to hand in a petition demanding compensation for the damage done to their houses.
Payments of between £1,000 and £2,000 will be given to 43 households.
"Water Service has now completed its investigations into the severe out-of-sewer flooding on 1 December," the Minister said. "This investigation was extremely complex, but we have now established that this occurred due to a combination of factors including a pump failure and a partially blocked downstream sewer.
"I sympathise with the obvious distress this has caused the residents affected and I will ensure that Water Service will implement a range of measures recommended in the report quickly to reduce the likelihood of this occurring again."
Community Care Grants/Crisis Loans totalling £35,000 have already been made to local residents.
Around 160 homes in the area were badly damaged by flood waters and sewage reflux caused by heavy rain.
(MB/SP)
The compensation, which will be paid before Christmas, comes a day after residents went to Stormont to hand in a petition demanding compensation for the damage done to their houses.
Payments of between £1,000 and £2,000 will be given to 43 households.
"Water Service has now completed its investigations into the severe out-of-sewer flooding on 1 December," the Minister said. "This investigation was extremely complex, but we have now established that this occurred due to a combination of factors including a pump failure and a partially blocked downstream sewer.
"I sympathise with the obvious distress this has caused the residents affected and I will ensure that Water Service will implement a range of measures recommended in the report quickly to reduce the likelihood of this occurring again."
Community Care Grants/Crisis Loans totalling £35,000 have already been made to local residents.
Around 160 homes in the area were badly damaged by flood waters and sewage reflux caused by heavy rain.
(MB/SP)
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