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✅   Cost of fighting flooding is soaking up English councils' cash, ministers warned

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District councils in low-lying areas say they have cut day-to-day services such as bin collections to fund pumping stationsThe costs of preventing major floods caused by extreme weather and excessive rainfall have fuelled a growing financial crisis among district councils in low-lying areas of England, ministers have been warned.Districts in the east of the country say they are having to cut day-to-day services such as bin collections to meet dramatic and unsustainable rises in payments levied to fund pumping stations used to protect communities from flooding. ...

The Guardian     Aug 14, 2024