A Pulborough family have been left with raw sewage strewn across their garden after a waste pipe overflowed during torrential rain.
And concerns are being raised over sewage polluting the River Arun and Pulborough Wild Brooks.
High river levels left much of Pulborough under water over the past week – and one family’s back garden covered in waste.
Sammie King, who lives with her husband Mark and three children at Swan Corner, said: “We live near the river and accept that our front garden floods occasionally but for nine months of the year, it’s beautiful.
“However, we have had a 48-hour sewage spill flooding my children’s play equipment in the back garden. It’s not just liquid, it’s nasty – bits of toilet paper and human waste. The garden just filled up like a swimming pool.”
She said that part of the garden did not usually flood which is why they had sited their children’s play equipment there.
She added her children Jake,10,…
