Rubbish left along the side of a road after dyke-cleaning work in Great Yarmouth should be cleared within two weeks, the council has said.
In recent weeks, Great Yarmouth Borough Council has carried out a scheme of dyke maintenance works along Caister Road.
This consisted of flailing all vegetation along the dyke edges, together with dredging silt from the bottom of the dyke.
A council spokesperson said the work is carried out periodically to clear detritus from the bottom of the dyke.
This restores its water-holding capacity to store surface water from the road and surrounding areas.
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"It is common practice to lay this silt removed from the dykes thinly on the grass banks next to them," the spokesperson said.
"This might look unsightly at first, but once dried acts as a compost and grass normally regrows quite quickly."
The council also said that any litter dredged from the dyke should be removed by the end of next week.
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In March, Mike Spragg, of Collingwood Road, contacted this newspaper about the state of the road verge.
He had been looking forward to seeing the flowers, he said, but instead saw "flattened daffodils and wide tractor marks all over the place".
"Did nobody in the council in their wisdom think of giving the go-ahead for this a couple of months earlier or later, by which time the poor daffodils would be just a distant memory?" he said.
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The council spokesperson said the works were planned to be carried out before Easter and the start of the tourist season.
"While every care is taken not to damage any daffodils that may be in flower at the time, there is always the possibility that some will be damaged," the spokesperson said.
Previously, the dredged silt has been found not to affect the ability of the bulbs to flower the following year.
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