West London streets flooded annually with heavy rains: Local council was about to spend millions to fix the problem, then beavers did it for free

• For Londoners living around Greenford Tube station, tiptoeing through floodwater to get to work was a part of their daily routine.
• The ticket hall found itself inundated after a heavy downpour with neighbourhoods flooded and sandbags routinely deployed to make way.
• The local council of Ealing, a borough in West London faced the daunting reality every year and yet struggled to come up with a solution.