Heartbreak as business owners return to work to find their livelihoods destroyed overnight
manchestereveningnews.co.ukBusiness owners say they are 'heartbroken' after their premises were wrecked in the New Year's Day floods causing damage estimated to be more than a million pounds.
Some tradespeople based at the Meadow Industrial Estate in Stockport say they are now considering giving up after being flooded for the second time in three years.
The business park is situated next to the River Tame, just behind Meadow Mill. More than 400 people who live in apartments in the converted mill had to be evacuated by the emergency services after its car park and lower floors were flooded, cutting off water and power supplies and leaving residents stranded.
The roughly 20 units on the industrial estate were also deluged by water which, according to its owners, reached a height of more than six feet.
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