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The area was badly hit by severe floods last year, prompting the publication of a taskforce report recommending a series of anti-flood measures.

This week, three inches of rain fell within 36 hours, closing roads and flooding farmland again.

"What was exceptional was the rate that the flood water came up, it just surged into our farmyard in a matter of three or four hours and it was at such a rate that we could not remove the produce to save it", farmer Barry Reed told UTV.

"Last year Lough Erne was affected and it was affected for six to eight weeks. We have been hit already now and it's given more rain for the next two, three days and this may get worse."

In November 2009, the equivalent of three months of rainfall fell in just over three weeks, which led to Lough Erne's water levels rising to record levels.

The Fermanagh flooding taskforce was set up in response to the worst flooding in the area in living memory.

"The report came out a month ago and there has been nothing done. The problem is the Colebrook river. The mouth of the Colebrook river needs to be dried and until that's done we'll have the same problem", DUP councillor Paul Robinson said.

SDLP Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA Tommy Gallagher says the report failed to fully address the real problems.

"It's clear that the taskforce report didn't go far enough and one million pounds earmarked for the upgrade of flood-hit roads will not go far enough.

"Main arterial routes through the county, in and around Enniskillen, as well as access routes to the main bridges over Lough Erne, need to be raised in order to prevent the gridlock experienced last year. That work should have commenced already.

"Our economy in Fermanagh is suffering. This is a bad image to be sending out. We depend heavily on visitors, and with pictures like this being repeated season after season, it is not going to attract visitors to the area," Mr Gallagher told UTV.

More heavy rain is forecast over the next few days.

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