Resident Michael Gill said the water rose "much quicker than in the floods of 2007".
The defences were put in place because the area was hit by floods in 2007.
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"The floods in 2007 were the worst - we lost everything and we had to move out, " said Mrs Hutchins.
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The flood defence scheme, named Our City Our River, is aimed at protecting the area which last experienced serious floods in 2007.
Some residents have said the village has been affected more severely than during flash floods in 2007, when more than 150 homes were damaged.
"We know from our experience in Cockermouth and from the floods in 2007 that a few simple acts can make all the difference, " he said.
Jackie Smith, who lives in Kempsey near Worcester, believes the defences put up along the River Severn since the floods of 2007 have made the situation worse where she lives.
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Heather Hutchins, from Midgham village in West Berkshire, "lost everything" in the floods of summer 2007.
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She got involved in the group after 2007 floods in nearby Coffeyville, Kan.
Residents in a Berkshire town badly affected by the 2007 floods have met industry representatives and politicians over insurance concerns.
River levels in Louth were the highest since the 2007 floods, and sandbags have been issued to those living along the River Lud.
An independent review into the 2007 floods said Yorkshire Water had ignored repeated warnings about the state of its drainage and pumping systems.
Thatcham was devastated by severe floods in July 2007 with about 1, 000 homes damaged by flood water which rose to 4ft (1.2m) in places.
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And it says some lessons have been learned from the 2007 floods, which caused disruption at GCHQ, but there was "still scope for improvement".
The Environment Agency said Exercise Watermark was England and Wales's biggest emergency planning exercise, and was one of the recommendations made by Sir Michael Pitt in his review of the summer 2007 floods.
Sue Staunton, business adviser at James Cowper accountants in Oxford, estimates the cost of the flooding in Oxfordshire alone could run in to "tens of millions of pounds", based on the experience of the 2007 floods.
Dr Blackburn and his colleagues studied the pattern of the jet stream during the floods in June and July 2007 and found it to be similar in appearance to now.
It has called on the government to set up an emergency capital highways maintenance fund, as it did following the floods which hit swathes of the country in summer 2007.
The Berkshire town is at risk of flooding due to the raised position of the Kennet and Avon Canal and experienced major floods in 1947 and 1960, with smaller scale floods affecting the town more recently in 2000, 2003 and 2007.
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Smaller scale floods affected the town more recently, in 2000, 2003 and 2007.
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