Susannah said it was “amazing to me what people put in their sewers, because not just the stuff that you expect”.
“Things like earbuds that you think ‘Do really people put those down the loo?’
“Those wipes that are supposed to be washable and flushable, but they’re really really not because they’re still all over my garden. It’s pretty revolting.”
She said the way the sewage was coming through, “it has to be more than just the raised water levels”.
“Because everybody else’s gardens have gone down there, so it must be more than the water levels.
“But you can’t stress about these things. It will be dealt with, I’m sure.”
More than 80 flood warnings remain in place across Dorset and Hampshire and more heavy rain overnight and some parts of the county such as Blandford Forum have seen “unprecedented” flooding.
Roberts said: “It’s no worse than it’s ever been out here but the fact that there are more houses out here now … people panic.”
“These fields have always flooded, they are a flood plain, so you can’t expect anything else.”
She said it would “get worse tomorrow again”.
“[The rain] comes down from Stourhead, all the way down through Blandford, down to here, so tomorrow the river levels will probably rise again.”
She added the area has three rivers running through, the main ones being the River Allen and the Stour.
“We always said the children go to Allenbourn School would have to go to school in Wellington boots, which is almost proved right now.”
But she said “there isn’t an awful lot you can do”.
“Especially because this was all allotment, so they soaked up a lot of the rain and the moisture this side.
“But now it’s all getting taken down gullies, so you can’t expect anything else.
“We have got a lot of permeable drives so that’s great.”
Roberts added that the river “won’t come up that high”.
“But rivers change their courses because when my children were small they used to come down here and there used to be a little beach.
“That has disappeared completely so it’s not that long ago.”
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