On Christmas Eve, homes in March were flooded after heavy rainfall. Just two weeks before, a rep from Anglian Water had met with Fenland councillors to explain what measures had been put in place since the last significant floods the town. Briony Tuthill said: “I know there was significant flooding in 2014 and following that we undertook some extensive CCTV surveys of our sewers and also de-silted where we found some sewers had levels of silt within them.