It's not just flood water, it's sewerage coming up too and it's a serious pollution problem.
Norton Fitzwarren was flooded on Sunday morning but flood water has not receded, hampering clean-up efforts.
Work on the bridge started in July after it was damaged by flood water.
Fire crews also had to remove a car which got stuck in flood water on Meaford Road.
The aim is to reduce the amount of flood water reaching the town during periods of heavy rainfall.
Eight properties were known to have flooded during heavy rainfall and two drivers were rescued from flood water.
Flood water is pumped into the River Tone then carried to the River Parrett and into the sea.
Flood water disturbed ground beneath Spencer Court, Newburn, Newcastle, damaging the foundations when a culvert collapsed during flash floods.
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The Cambridgeshire seal, which was filmed in flood water, was spotted at Fen Drayton Lakes Reserve, in Swavesey.
People reported how, by the time they managed to gather their children, flood water was already waist high, or worse.
Most incidents related to flood water running off fields but water on the A34 at Meaford was their "main concern".
In Oxfordshire, council workers have been busy pumping flood water out of drains and putting temporary flood defences in place.
In Devon and Somerset, the fire service was called to 18 rescues of people in vehicles caught in flood water.
The business stayed open late last year despite being hit by the flood water that caused major damage in Stonehaven.
Some properties had up to 3ft (0.9m) of flood water in them, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said.
Firefighters went to the aid of a woman whose car had become stuck in flood water on the A5 near Froncysyllte.
Firefighters spent more than an hour rescuing a man from a car which was stuck due to flood water in Shropshire.
Flood water began to subside after a weekend that saw Manila hit with its heaviest rainfall in more than 40 years.
The agency reminded people about the dangers of flood waters and warned them not to walk or drive through flood water.
"It might have expended a lot of energy swimming upriver against the flood water, so hopefully it's finding food, " she said.
Police and highways officials also closed the A39 road because flood water was threatening to break the banks of a nearby waterway.
In December, a woman being washed away in flood water near Umberleigh, Devon, was saved and 12 people were rescued in Lostwithiel, Cornwall.
Trains between Somerset and Devon are likely to be disrupted for up to a week after signalling equipment was damaged by flood water.
The defences include a flood water storage area, upstream of the city, which can hold up to 1.5 million cubic metres of water.
The Welney Causeway was closed by Norfolk County Council Highways department on 23 November and will remain closed until flood water has receded.
Thatcham was devastated by severe floods in July 2007 with about 1, 000 homes damaged by flood water which rose to 4ft (1.2m) in places.
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The bodies of a man, woman and two children were found inside a car swept over a cliff by flood water, Jamaican police said.
Fast-flowing flood water at Copplestone led to the temporary suspension of trains on the Tarka Line, with buses replacing trains between Crediton and Barnstaple.
He said the flooding had caused damage to roads in the county which would be fully assessed once all the flood water had receded.
Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service is also visiting villages left isolated by flood water such as Deerhurst, Apperley, Tirley, Corse Lawn, Ashleworth, Sandhurst and Maisemore.
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