RESIDENTS in Harwich are still waiting for a new flood siren, three years after it was taken away.

The town’s flood siren was removed by Essex County Council in 2011 and replaced with a text and e-mail alert system to cut costs.

Councillors on Harwich Town Council have been working to have a new siren installed.

In January last year they hoped it would only be another six months before it was installed.

Resident Betty Holbrook raised the issue at a Harwich Town Council meeting.

She said: “We are getting all this rough weather and this is the only way the whole of Harwich and Bathside will know there is a flood.”

Councillor Robert Day said the process had been “frustrated” by the system and number of other authorities involved.

“We have a meeting within the next seven days to try and move it on,” he said.