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A Shepparton business owner is fed up with poor drainage after her building was inundated with floodwater this week.

Hasan’s Truck Repairs on the corner of Drummond and New Dookie Rds was one of several businesses hit worst by flash flooding on Wednesday.

Owner Mary Hasan said in 12 years, min or flooding was common when rainfall was light, but this time she had never seen so much water before.

‘‘One side of the road is owned by council and the other side is owned by VicRoads, so we never have an answer about the drains. We pay our rates, ’’ Mrs Hasan said.

‘‘We’re losing business, we need to get vehicles out and how will we?’’

The computer system suffered water damage and the phone lines were down after about 50mm of water swept through the building.

Mrs Hasan was also disappointed with ‘‘idiots’’ who drove past at high speeds through floodwater causing bow waves.

‘‘They have no consideration. I rang council so they could put a road closed sign at the end of the road, but they said they’d ran out of them,’’ she said.

Don’t miss tomorrow’s News where the flood coverage continues. A Shepparton lawyer calls for an independent inquiry into drainage in north Shepparton, we speak to people whose homes were inundated with water and more local businesses who have been stranded for days.

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The heavy rain might have stopped on Wednesday night but by lunchtime Friday the water level was still rising in Mason Court. The News visited home owners in the badly affected street.Shepparton Flooding Aftermath.Shepparton business copped 200 mm of water through the store and warehouse after the heavy rain.

A woman and a taxi driver were rescued from  floodwaters in Locksley Crt, Shepparton.