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This is the awful moment a mother duck leads her baby ducklings through sewage-infested water in a Berkshire village, as residents say they have been forced to wade through the filth spewing out of manholes for months.
Angry residents in Lambourn, Berkshire - where the Great British Bake Off is filmed - have erected a 's**t show' sign mocking a water company after their village was flooded with human waste, condoms and underwear.
A new video has emerged today of a mother duck and her baby ducklings paddling through the dirty water while a passer-by watches on in dismay.
Peter Devery, environment communications officer for the Angling Trust shared the video to his social media alongside the caption: 'If used loo roll and poo sprayed across the streets of Lambourne didn't shock you, here's mummy duck leading her new ducklings through the sewage waste kindly held back by Thames Water's very efficient barrier. This has been going on for weeks.'
Video footage shows a mother duck and her ducklings wading through sewage
Peter Devery, environment communications officer for the Angling Trust shared the video to his social media
Residents say the grim issue started back in December when a drain began to overflow - and spilled out into other areas of the village, where Stand Up to Cancer is also filmed.
Children have been walking through the stinking water to get to school, while passing cars churn up the filth, which has also been killing plants and wildlife.
Fears have also been raised about water contamination in the River Lambourn - the same chalk stream that features in The Great British Bake Off.
Fed up villagers in Lambourn, Berkshire, have erected a 's**t show' sign mocking Thames Water after sewage began to churn up from drains
Children have been walking through the stinking water to get to school, while passing cars churn up the filth, which has also been killing plants and wildlife
Picture: A car drives slowly by the surging manhole which raw sewage is emerging from
Health warning signs about the flow of raw sewage were erected in the village
The traffic that drives through the piles of sewage churns it up on the road and spreads it around the village
The village sits within the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is just downstream to where the Channel 4 cooking show is filmed.
Locals have spotted sanitary products, poo and even underwear bobbing around their village but Thames Water are yet to solve the issue.
A mock road sign created by one cheeky local has been positioned along one road with the message 'Lambourne s**t show' written over it.
It is believed that high levels of groundwater have formed after one of the wettest years on record. The already saturated ground has led to increased water flow into local drainage systems.
One resident, who wished to remain unnamed, said: 'We have had raw sewage running down the road and into the protected river Lambourn since December.
'You can see human faeces and sanitary products flowing down the road and into the river constantly.
'Large pot holes have formed in the road and Thames Water appear to have no motivation to find a solution.
