A MULTI-MILLION pound scheme to reduce the risk of flooding to 170 homes in Basingstoke has finished.
Hampshire County Council announced that the work it has been carrying out in Buckskin after the area was flooded in 2013/14 is now complete, seven years later.
The council committed £6.4m to carry out works in the area to reduce the risk of flooding, after dozens of families had to evacuate their homes when groundwater contaminated with raw sewage flooded into their properties.
Deputy leader of Hampshire County Council and executive member for economy, transport and environment, Councillor Rob Humby said: “Buckskin was hit hard by groundwater flooding during the winter for 2014 and since then, a great deal of work has been done by partner organisations, and the local flood action group in the community, to put in measures to reduce the risk of this happening again.