UPDATED: Police and fire service issue flood warning

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Police and fire service issue flood warning Police and fire service issue flood warning

POLICE and the fire service have issued warnings following flooding in the Warrington area.

Heavy rain all day Monday has caused high water levels in areas right across the town including Orford, Dallam, Great Sankey and Croft.

Roads are affected as are gulleys throughout the town.

Hawleys Lane in Dallam, which has been closed to traffic, is one of the worst hit areas as shown by this picture.

The Met Office has predicted the rain could continue for another 24 hours and have issued an amber weather warning for the area.

Parts of Orford Park have been flooded while warnings have been issued for Sankey Brook at Gemini.

A flooding warning has also been put in place for Sankey Brook in Dallam for homes on Chepstow Close, Colwyn Close, Higham Avenue, Tavlin Avenue, Marshall Avenue, Mullen Close and Hodgkinson Avenue.

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Comments(8)

old-codger says...
6:13pm Mon 24 Sep 12

Every time it rains Hawleys lane cops for it. Its been like this for years, Its about time the problem was solved instead of patched up.

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moleogod says...
6:26pm Mon 24 Sep 12

when i used to walk to college 12 nearly 13 years ago this used to happen AT LOT. it really needs fixing

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bigmama99 says...
8:05pm Mon 24 Sep 12

Gives the highways contractors some big money to put those signs out and to close the road, easy money for them, cheaper to build a sump pump or put automatic electronic road closure signs up, WBC can spend our money on what will be classed as an emergency, despite all the history for this site, JOKE.
Let's see a costing printed in the Guardian for all the road closures over the last ten years pluss? Thousands and Thousands (even hundreds of thousands no doubt?)

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chunkymunky says...
9:47am Tue 25 Sep 12

They probably wasnt at hawleys lane becuase the teams were out sandbagging and draining residential street like where i live!

The team who sorted our estate out were great, they protected our homes and responded with urgency!!!

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AbsoluteZero says...
10:50am Tue 25 Sep 12

I followed advice and planted drought hardy plants !

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notatcreamfields says...
1:25pm Tue 25 Sep 12

There's always problems with the United Utilities owned pump there, don't know whether that's still the issue cause not worked there for years

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notatcreamfields says...
1:25pm Tue 25 Sep 12

There's always problems with the United Utilities owned pump there, don't know whether that's still the issue cause not worked there for years

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old-codger says...
10:22pm Tue 25 Sep 12

My comments were not about sand bagging residential streets,
They were about a road that has flooded every year for donkeys years and never been really repaired to the point of the drains working.

People going to Dallam or Bewsey have a long walk round because of it, Although I have seen kids go over the railway to save time..

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