Corns was arrested by police when he stepped off a Liverpool to Edinburgh train at Haymarket in May 2011 with nearly 1.2 kilos of heroin in his rucksack.
Danny Corns, who lives in one of the 15 flooded houses, said it was "reassuring to a point" to learn it was a sensor that had failed rather than the pumps themselves.
That is one of the problems - I think we all think food poisoning is just as normal as, say, in growing toenails or corns and it isn't - it does have a cause and it does have an outcome and it could be stopped if more of us made a fuss.