HOMEOWNERS have been marooned and their gardens and homes flooded with sewage after further rain worsened the problems in Hughenden Valley.

Brenda Lynch, 53, of Boss Lane, and her family have been stranded on their road after the excessive rain created a huge lake at the junction of Valley Road and Boss Lane.

Mrs Lynch and her neighbours had to abandon their cars in Valley Road and wade through the water to reach their homes.

Even the postman and milkman have been unable to reach them. The deluge has made life a misery in Valley Road for about seven weeks and Thames Water says there is little it can do until the floods subside.

Mrs Lynch said: "We have a river running past our cottage into this lake. Some of the neighbours in Valley Road have sewage coming into the garden."

Wycombe District Council has supplied 250 sandbags which it says have protected most of the houses and the fire brigade has tried to pump out the water.

Sir Ray Whitney, MP for Wycombe, said: "I am very sympathetic and I am certainly going to talk to people in Hughenden Valley and to see what the council and water people have to say about it.

"In my memory we have never had problems like that either in Well End or Marlow or the Hughenden Valley.

"If anything more can be done it should be done to relieve the problem."

Frank Shepherd, spokesman for Thames Water, said: "In Boss Lane essentially it is a land drainage problem which does not come under our area of responsibility but obviously that has an impact on our operations.

"It was a build up of ground water that formed at the top of Boss Lane which got up to a certain level and ran down the street forming a lake at the bottom."

Mr Shepherd said that pumping and tankering was still continuing to get rid of excess water in Valley Road.

Officers from Wycombe District Council and Buckinghamshire County Council investigated the situation on Wednesday and action is being taken to improve the drainage in the vicinity.