Portaloos delivered as caravan park outside Uxbridge floods with raw sewage

Transport for Bucks sourced and provided 20 portaloos to the flood-hit Orchard caravan park near Iver, on the road to Uxbridge

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Graham Spence-WLON

11:11, 11 FEB 2014
Updated11:49, 11 FEB 2014

EMERGENCY teams have delivered portaloos to a residential park on the outskirts of Uxbridge after it became flooded.

Transport for Bucks sourced and provided 20 portaloos to the flood-hit Orchard caravan park near Iver, on the road to Uxbridge.

The homes of 300 people who live on the site, all over the age of 65, were in danger of contamination from raw sewerage.

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