Calls to address flooding issues at a Moray cemetery have been made after parts of it were submerged under water again.
A visitor to Clovenside Cemetery in Forres, who wishes to remain anonymous, said she was “appalled” after coming across the extensively flooded cemetery on New Year’s Day.
Clovenside Cemetery in Forres was flooded again on New Year’s Day.
She told The Northern Scot: “There was an open lair and it makes you think is it suitable for a new burial?
“I wouldn’t wish my loved one submerged like this, their grave and effects ruined.
“I think it adds more grief and distress to families knowing their loved one’s final resting place is disturbed like this.
“As someone who is grieving the recent loss of a loved one, I can’t imagine what it must be like.
“The flooding appears in sections where the graves are 20 to 30 years old but this is irrelevant – the dead still deserve respect and dignity.
The cemetery is known to be prone to flooding.
“I thought this problem was being addressed?”
In 2021, Moray Council announced that the graveyard’s flooding problem would be addressed with a £56,000 drainage improvement project.
A few months after the announcement the local authority said that the project was incomplete adding that no timescale for completion could be provided.
Work on the project began on September 6 in 2021 and, according to signs at the cemetery, should have been completed in “approximately four weeks”.
It is unclear if there are plans in place to address the cemetery’s latest flooding issues.
An open lair at the cemetery.
Moray Council has been approached for comment.