'Several days' before A421 will reopen

National Highways say that they are continuing to work around the clock to tackle the issue but is warning that despite having removed over 5 million litres of water.

Both carriageways have been closed since Sunday evening, after torrential rain.

Efforts to clear the floodwater have been ongoing since the weekend with a fleet of 10 tankers working around the clock to remove water from the carriageway, which is estimated to be around 60 million litres in total, and at its peak was 8ft deep.

Martin Fellows, Regional Director for National Highways in the East of England, said:

“This is an absolute priority as we don’t want people’s journeys impacted by disruption and all our efforts are focused on resolving this and getting the road open as soon as it is safe to do so."

“Given the ground conditions are so wet and we are having to transport the floodwater away from the immediate area, it’s important people realise the size of the task and this could take a number of days to resolve."

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