By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Two residents in Keysborough are embroiled in a battle for compo from City of Greater Dandenong over large nature-strip trees blocking their homes’ drainpipes.
Sam Dasgupta and Charmaine Young live streets away in the same Hidden Grove estate.
Both say that roots from eucalyptus trees on council nature strips have blocked storm water pipes and flooded their properties.
In both cases, their claims were referred to the council’s “risk and liability consultant” National Claims Solutions – and denied.
In its rejection letters, NCS does not appear to dispute that the nature-strip trees blocked the drains.
However, it argued that the residents should have pre-warned Greater Dandenong of the issue before their homes were flooded.
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