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31/7/07 : Council Aids Residents in Floods
Reading Borough Council provided residents and businesses with 16,500 sandbags, used 160 tonnes of sand to fill them and its emergency control team dealt with more than 1,000 phone calls in just four days as floods hit many parts of the town.
More than 160 staff from all directorates - including housing, community care, street care, environment, children's services, community action and transport - spent hundreds of hours, and often worked through the night, to help residents affected. And all this was in addition to council staff carrying on with their day jobs! And staff of course worked in partnership with Reading police, Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service, Royal Berkshire Ambulance Trust, Thames Water and the Environment Agency.
Council Leader, Labour's David Sutton, says: "Council staff, and those of our partners, worked incredibly hard to help residents facing flooding such as most of them had never experienced before. This was public service at its best, and I would like to thank all those involved."
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