Cleaning up continued this week for businesses on Market Strand in Falmouth after a "three foot river" flowed down Killigrew Street and flooded the street and Prince of Wales Pier last week.

The Prince of Wales pub is still waiting for some electrical goods to be replaced, but other businesses such as Cafe Strand, the Vaping Agency, and the Fal River visitor information centre are back to normal.

However, while the floodwaters may have receded, some anger still remains over the fact that this flooding still continues despite work which was meant to have resolved drainage problems, and a lack of follow up from local government bodies and South West Water.

Dave Martin, who runs the Prince of Wales, said the flooding was the worst he had seen it, and the pub had to close for two days afterwards.

He said: "Killigrew Street looked like a three foot river, you could have surfed down Killigrew Street.

"We had about a foot in here. We had to have a new python [beer line] system... everything tripped out. We have still got the fridges out, and the back bar coolers, and we are waiting for the insurance assessor to come."

Dave also asked why the drains outside the pub had not been fixed - despite "hundreds of thousands of pounds" being spent on the system - meaning the floodwaters on Tuesday night had carried raw sewage and dead rats.

"But town management hasn't been, Cornwall Council hasn't been, South West Water hasn't been near the place. It happened at 2pm, we told them the drains were blocked, no-one came down or checked the drains. Then at 8pm where's the water going to go?

"If they were cleared out on a regular basis it might take some of the water away. We pay enough in rates and water rates, they are quick enough to jump on you if you don't pay them. Maybe the businesses in the area should get a petition up and stop paying rates until they sort it out."

Janice Kingsley who owns Cafe Strand, next door to the pub, said she had "a couple of inches" of water covering the entire floor and the business remained closed on Thursday while it was cleaned.

She said: "We had to disinfect everything, clean everything, we had to throw a load of juice away... all the extension leads were underwater and all the electric tripped off."

She added: "They should do more to sort the drains out, it's disgusting. there was dead rats and everything out there. It's not nice, is it?"

Over on Prince of Wales Pier the Fal River visitor information centre had its outdoors kiosk washed from its place on the pier, and the centre suffered a small amount of flooding despite having a flood barrier in place.

Louise Jones, who works at the office, said "it was like a monsoon coming down," and added that she saw a metal drain cover pushed up and floating.

A statement on behalf of Cornwall Council and South West Water said that last week's events were "extreme in nature," and whereas a typical light rain shower would be between 0.25 and 1mm of rainfall per hour, that recorded in Falmouth was 8mm per hour in the afternoon, 28mm per hour in the evening and 20mm per hour early Wednesday morning, and runoff from Killigrew Street, Kimberley Park Road and the terraces on either side of the Moor all funnelled into Market Strand.

They said: "Cornwall Council has worked closely with Falmouth Town Council and South West Water to mitigate the impact of such events and a number of works were completed in 2014/15, including the fitting of tideflex valves and additional gullies, to intercept the run off.

"Recent inspections of the drainage systems in the area have shown that they were clear and that no restriction to flow was present. Cornwall Council is currently reviewing the data for last week’s event and we will be working closely with SWW and Falmouth Town Council to explore whether any additional measures can be taken to reduce the impact of future events of this nature.

"We are also working with SWW to look at an integrated urban drainage model to see if this could reduce surface water in the Market Strand area."