The company has two large pumping stations - one in Hedon Road in east Hull, and the other at Goulton Street in east Hull. Together, they can pump a total of 30 cubic metres of storm water per second straight into the River Humber.

In addition, its Bransholme pumping station serves Bransholme, Sutton Park and Kingswood and discharges storm water into the River Hull while it operates another pumping station at Springhead Avenue in west Hull.
 
It now appears that at the height of the floods the Bransholme station was out of action.
 
A spokesman for Yorkshire Water said the station was working at full capacity throughout June 25 but it became completely flooded on the following morning, leading to all five pumps seizing up.

There was no pumping for most of the day, until limited temporary pumping was restored.

The problems at the pumping station, it says, did not cause the flooding in the local area, but they did delay clearance of the flood water in some areas.