A homeowner who has faced a six-month battle to rid his home of raw sewage says he was left “absolutely embarrassed” and abused by multiple people who’ve passed his foul-smelling house. Nigel Stedman, 62, claims his neighbour first reported the raw sewage water washing down drains to the front of their homes on Chepstow Road in Newport around six months ago.
Welsh Water denies this and said the first they had heard of the problem was on August 16. “The water was turning green and it was all across the pavement,” Nigel, who lives on the busy city street with his wife and 85-year-old father-in-law, said.
“The neighbour phoned up Welsh Water and they said they would send someone out to us. They came and put some dye down the manhole to see if we’d got any cracks anywhere in the pipework but none of the dye came out until they’d left.
