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Clean-up begins after floods
A major clean-up operation has begin after torrential rain caused flash floods across Chorley and Leyland on Wednesday night.
Several roads were turned into lakes in less than an hour.
Just days after United Utilities announced a hose pipe ban, homes, streets and gardens were submerged by flood waters.
Fire crews began receiving repeated calls from 6pm. Chorley, Leyland, and Bamber Bridge were thought to have been the worst-affected areas.
Several roads in Euxton were closed after left resembling boating lakes.
Firefighters said School Lane in Bamber Bridge was also badly affected, along with Spenmoor Lane in Coppull and various streets on Leyland's Wade Hall estate.
It's not clear if any homes were actually flooded.
A firefighter, who was covering Leyland station, on Wednesday, said water had been pouring into homes.
He said: "There had been one yard flooded and it had been coming through the back door of a nail and beauty place.
"The drains were unable to take that amount of water.
"At one point there was a brook and the river had flooded up and it was full.
"They had never seen so much water but there was nothing you could do because it was flooding from the river."
Graham Nelson crew manager at Preston station, said: "We have been out on quite a few flooding incidents. We pumped a basement of a house out in the town centre.
"In Bamber Bridge we went to School Lane, to a house on a corner, and one around the corner where the owner was mopping out the kitchen.
"When it stopped the water subsided and the drains started to work again.
"It was a deluge, a massive amount to go down at once.
"I do not think any drain system could have coped with that."
British Waterways have announced a section of the Leeds Liverpool Canal will close next month due to a lack of rainfall.
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Weather for Chorley
Wednesday 23 May 2012
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