SEWAGE has been pouring into the street from a Bromsgrove care home for more than a fortnight while staff waited for a faulty waste pump to be fixed.

Since April 7, visitors to The Meadows in Birmingham Road had to walk across a wooden plank over the dirty water, before a private company came out to fix the problem on Tuesday (April 25).

Bromsgrove resident Gordon Massey, 56, contacted the Advertiser after having to dodge the puddle on his daily walks.

He said: "It's been nearly three weeks now and there's still sewage or foul water being pumped onto the highway. I've seen people walking through it going to this nursing home to visit people, and I thought, especially with it being Easter week, that someone would be on it to fix it.

"It's three of four inches of standing water that goes all the way across the road and down the hill. The home is obviously aware of it as they've put a plank from the road to the nursing home so you can actually cross without having to wade through it.

"There's most certainly some type of toilet paper or tissue in it so it's definitely not something that should be carrying on."

Louise Martin, who manages The Meadows, admitted this isn't the first time they've had problems with the building’s sewage pump.

She said: "The problem is that we've had it fixed a couple of times already and we've had the pump out and it was checked two or three times.

"We contacted a company to come and fix it as soon as it happened but we’ve had to wait over the Easter break for the right parts to be ordered. This time it was concluded that the Macerator was actually the problem but we've had an extra pump fitted now.

“We did everything in our power to fix the problem as quickly as possible.”

Operations manager Raj Gokhool said he organised for the waste in the street to be regularly 'pumped out' while the external company waited for parts to be delivered.

The care home did not wish to reveal the name of the company hired to fix the pump.