An underground water main which burst in Derby yesterday (Thursday August 9th) has damaged roads in the area, affected local water supplies - and flooded out dealers Arb & Grounds.
The flooding made the national news - you can read the BBC's report here. And here's the report on Derby Live's site.
Elliott Davidson, owner of Arb & Grounds who have provided these pictures and the below video links, told Service Dealer, "Yesterday morning when we turned up to work at 8am and we were presented with a slight problem - as the hot weather has made a slow start to the season it seemed as though we had wished too hard for rain! As you can see from the image (above) our car park was 2ft deep in water.
"As we are located at the lowest level in the local vicinity, all of the water ran down the road through other businesses into our site, where it all collected and flooded.
"We were told by the police and Severn Trent that we weren't allowed to access the site until the water is pumped out due to health and safety reasons. Due to this I had to send all of our staff home and write the day off from trading. Later on I arrived back on site with the store manager after we got the heads up that the car park had been pumped out. The the car park was covered in mud and debris, plus there was damage to the tarmac.
"Once we were able to get into the building we were confronted with with puddles of water.
"I have to say Severn Trent have been very helpful and have admitted full responsibility for the issues that have been caused.
"We made the decision to still open today as we cant afford not to. The carpet is completely water logged and we are trying to dry out everything, to fully see the extent of the damage.
"We are asking our customers to please bear with us while our premises is damaged.
"The plan now is to empty the whole showrooms and rip the carpet out. In the meantime we’ll just dry the place out.
"We are waiting to hear from the insurance company to find out the next steps for drying our showroom."
You can see videos taken by Arb & Grounds of the flooding here and here.
