A farmer and his nephew are unpopular with their neighbours after accidentally smashing through a pipe to send gallons of water flooding through their village.
Philip Langton, 57, said the pair had been using a post knocker mounted to a tractor to strengthen gateposts on his land.
The pipe near Milford in Derbyshire, a village on the River Derwent, has been spouting gallons of water into the air.
He told the Telegraph: 'The water was 100ft in the air, it was unbelievable, the power of it.
'There must have been a million gallons of water. It went on for 50 minutes. We just moved away from it as quickly as we could and I called Severn Trent.
'We haven't done anything wrong but everybody wants someone to blame and to point the finger.'
A giant spout of water fires into the sky today in Milford, Derbyshire. The area was flooded after the pipe accident
Villagers have been wading through muddy water in their homes and one said his wife's florist business had been 'ruined'. Police closed roads and advised people to avoid the area following the incident at about 11.20am.
Ian Busting surveys the damage to his home and his wife's florist business, saying: 'Someone will have to pay for all this'
Severn Trent Water said this afternoon that it was making 'good progress in isolating the pipe' and the water should be turned off soon.
Local Ian Busting said: 'My wife is devastated. Everything's ruined. Someone will have to pay for all this. We have a large corporate order which needs to go out on Thursday. We'll have to find a way of completing the order.'
Alex Wilbraham, owner of the Holly Bush Inn, said: 'It's like a river. It's been going for about an hour. We've made a barricade outside of the pub to stop the water flowing in. The volume and speed of it is crazy.'
Rafe Hock, owner of the Riverside Fitness Centre, told Derbyshire Live: 'It started with just a surge of water at around
