‘We can’t live in this’: the tightknit Chesterfield street devastated by flooding
by Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#6FSW1)
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Almost every square inch of the houses along Tapton Terrace in Chesterfield is covered in a thick layer of wet brown mud.
Inside the homes, brown lines across the walls show that water levels reached a height of 1.5 metres (5ft).
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