Robbie Woods, of Hawthorn Terrace in Thornton, has experienced flooding before but this is the first time in two years that human waste has seeped into his garden.

He said: "On Thursday evening at about 4.45 p.m. a horrible smell entered our house, I looked out of my living room window and to my amazement there was flooding to the front of the house.

"This has happened before but we did not have raw sewage, such as condoms and human excrement, floating up our driveway and through our front gate."

Mr Woods and his neighbours called Scottish Water to report the issue and an hour later a Fife Council worker arrived to assess the situation and start work.

After three hours of sewage pouring into their gardens, residents noticed the dirty water beginning to subside. However, this was not the end of the problem.

Mr Woods added: "When the sewage finally went away it left used toilet roll and other horrible things in the road for us to look at. I admit another van turned up with two men, a hose and a container of detergent, and they cleaned up the mess from the neighbours' and our front garden, but even on Saturday there is still used, dried-up toilet roll on the road and the smell is still there.

"This is a really nice village with great neighbours but, I pay £150.99 a year in Council Tax to deal with sewage and not have it in our garden.
"The neighbours are saying this has been happening for 32 years."

A spokesman for Scottish Water apologised for the inconvenience caused to the residents of Hawthorn Terrace and appealed to as many people as possible to follow their 'bag it and bin it' campaign, in a bid to reduce blockages which can cause flooding.

He said: "Scottish Water engineers attended Hawthorn Terrace last week to investigate flooding as a result of a problem in the waste water network. A choke was found in the network which was then cleared. A clean up of the area was subsequently carried out.

"We are asking people to carefully dispose of fat, oil and grease and other sanitary products in the bin – rather than putting them down the sink or toilet."