Letchworth Lido clean-up operation begins after flooding
Everyone Active did not expand on the nature of the flooding in its social media post.However, someone responded to the post saying the Pix Brook on the common "burst its banks and flooded the whole area with nasty water" adding it "def seems to happen every year or two".
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