'Vast majority' of roads reopened after severe flooding

The ‘vast majority’ of roads have now reopened after last week’s severe flooding, says Windsor and Maidenhead council - and Slough fared OK during the dramatic rain.

Flood-prone neighbourhoods in the borough witnessed their worst flooding in a decade last week – resulting in evacuations in Wraysbury and the closure of submerged roads across the borough.

Fire crews visited more than 90 properties in Wraysbury last week to check on the welfare of residents.

Some of the roads that had to be closed were announced reopen on Friday – and ‘clean-up’ has been taking place on flooded roads over the weekend.

Windsor and Maidenhead council says ‘the vast majority’ of roads that were flooded have since cleared and been reopened, including the B4447 The Moor, Cookham.

A spokesperson said:

“A few monitor roads are still affected by flooding and they will be inspected, cleaned and reopened once the water fully dissipates from them. We continue to monitor.  

Bin crews were not able to access some streets in Wraysbury last Wednesday, due to flooding but they returned on Thursday and Friday and made collections from those as the waters dissipated last week.

Collections in Cookham went ahead as planned on Friday.

“We are aware of a few properties in both villages which crews still couldn’t access due to flooding,” the spokesperson added.

“Affected residents are asked to please leave their bin out and it will be collected as soon as practically possible once the water has subsided.”

You can also report a missed bin on our website https://www.rbwm.gov.uk/report-it 

Over in Slough, the Colne Brook at Colnbrook overtopped its banks but other than some parking areas, local parks and fields being covered in water, 'there was not much in the way of impact,' said Slough council.

"We had staff out knocking on doors for a couple of days to make sure any vulnerable people were OK but there were no evacuations and no major issues.

"We had done a lot of advanced work with EA making sure gullies, weirs, filters etc were clear and that continued throughout.

"We were also monitoring water levels from prior to the flood alert in Colnbrook becoming a flood warning so we knew exactly how things were playing out in the area."

No other areas of Slough affected and there was 'no major damage.'