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The highest flood on the River Severn in recent times was in July 2007. It overwhelmed the waterworks in Tewkesbury, which cut off piped drinking water for 2 weeks to 340,000 people. It very nearly cut off electricity to 600,000 thousand people, the electricity station was saved by the frantic efforts of a lot of people. Some houses in Tewkesbury have only just been dried out, repaired, and re-occupied by their owners. Fortunately there were very few deaths.

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