First published on Thu 21 Jan 2021 08.52 GMT. The City of Manchester has switched over to backup manual pumps to address the issue. “Water levels at Dover Brook, near the river Alt, reached 2.5m today, which is unprecedented for that area, modelling from the Environment Agency, including anticipated overnight rainfall, will take that level to 3.5m,” the spokesman said. Please do not stretch our resources by adding to the problem.”. 4x4 vehicles will be utilised by emergency services to evacuate residents from the school. A council spokesman said heavy rain had led to raised water levels and flooding from the River Alt which was set to increase. By Simon Osborne PUBLISHED: 17:36, Tue, Jan 19, 2021 Northenden Flood Map. First published on Wed 20 Jan 2021 05.18 EST. Low near 15F. In Wales, emergency services worked overnight to prevent flood waters damaging an industrial estate where a crucial part of the manufacture of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine takes place. North Wales police said its officers were helping the fire service with the evacuation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, and urged people to avoid the area after a bridge over the River Clwyd collapsed. People were also asked to leave their homes in parts of Ruthin and Bangor on Dee in North Wales, and Maghull in Merseyside. Emergency crews including specialist divers were searching the River Taff in Cardiff after a member of the public reported seeing a body in the river below Blackweir. Each postcode is assigned a risk of high, medium, low, or very low, and then plotted on a Manchester flood map. In Wales, 48 flood warnings and 57 flood alerts are in place, while six flood alerts are in force in Scotland. Two more warnings were issued by Natural Resources Wales for Bangor-on-Dee, where up to 30 people were evacuated from their homes, and Lower Dee valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows. “Here in Didsbury they’ve managed to protect 10,000 homes by what they’ve done.”, The Prime Minister Boris Johnson has just arrived at Withington Golf Club to speak to environment agency staff @MENnewsdesk pic.twitter.com/y8jPn7bs28. The amber alert warns of the risk of flooding and deep flood waters which could pose a risk to life, and there are further warnings for snow and ice in Scotland. Most Manchester postcodes are low flood risk, with some medium, high, and very low flood … “But it really is advisable – follow the advice. The storm brought 7.9 inches of rain to some locations on Tuesday and Wednesday, and evacuations were ordered late … © 2021 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. The alerts, the lower of the three tiers of warning, cover Orkney, Sutherland and Caithness in the north, and a substantial area south of Inverness covering the Cairngorms across to Kinlochlaggan, and the whole of the north-east including Moray, Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen. Manchester, VT (05254) Today. North Manchester’s Bray Creek Tank is already empty … Your support powers our independent journalism, Available for everyone, funded by readers, Spring-like conditions will make it feel more like May than February, say forecasters, Data from Environment Agency shows thousands of people and businesses ‘at risk from ruined assets’, Met Office records coldest UK temperature for 25 years in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, at -23C, Care home residents among those evacuated after floods across the north-west of England and Wales. Motorists were being urged to take care, with many roads shut and rail services disrupted. It is the second time the £290m road, which links Hazel Grove in Stockport with Manchester Airport, has been closed because of flooding since it opened in October 2018. Manchester Flood Map. ITV News Correspondent Ben Chapman reports on the flooding in Greater Manchester. The GM Strategic Coordination Group for Storm Christoph and the Environment Agency have stood down severe flood warnings for Didsbury and Northenden, meaning people evacuated from their homes can return. The company said it had experienced “mild flooding resulting in excess water surrounding part of the buildings across site”. North Wales police said its officers were helping the fire service to evacuate homes in Ruthin, Denbighshire, and urged people to avoid the area. Our advice remains the same, please take extra care if you are out on the roads today and only travel if it’s essential. A few flurries or snow showers possible. We just don’t expect it to happen here, the defences have always been enough.”. All rights reserved. "Manchester City Council has also set up a Covid-safe emergency rest centre at Wythenshawe Forum in case anyone is told to evacuate because of flooding … Severe flooding and torrential rain forcing many residents into what No 10 says are Covid-secure facilities, Thu 21 Jan 2021 01.46 EST Speaking to reporters at Withington golf club, the prime minister said recent improvements to the region’s flood defences had averted a much worse situation. A major Manchester road was flooded this morning after a water main burst. Some 2,000 properties in the East Didsbury, West Didsbury and Northenden areas of Greater Manchester were ordered evacuated on Wednesday night because of rising water levels, the city council said. A MAJOR incident has been declared in Greater Manchester amid forecasts of torrential rain and potential flooding. Thu 21 Jan 2021 03.52 EST A council worker in Didsbury, Manchester, checks a bridge over the River Mersey for damage after heavy rainfall. 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The Environment Agency has issued a further 191 flood warnings across England, with 228 less severe flood alerts, mainly across the Midlands and north of the country. Created with Sketch. Low near 15F. An amber warning for snow in parts of southern Scotland warned around 30cm could fall in areas above 400m, with up to 10cm likely to accumulate in lower regions until 8am on Thursday. Johnson said steps were being taken to ensure the transport and energy networks were prepared so that electricity outages would not be “severe” and that there were sufficient supplies of sandbags. Downing Street said Covid-secure facilities would be available for any people forced to evacuate as a result of the weather. Map of Manchester (Greater Manchester) postcodes and their flood risks. Meanwhile residents in Maghull were advised to leave their properties as soon as possible after a severe flood warning was issued, Sefton council said. “Regrettably, people who do not live locally are driving to the area to ‘see the floods’. The Environment Agency said many rivers were at “dangerously high levels”, but by 7am on Thursday Manchester city council said it believed water levels for the River Bollin and for the River Mersey in Northenden and Didsbury had peaked. — Greater Manchester Police (@gmpolice) January 15, 2021 The incident also came as a number of crashes were reported on roads across the region, with icy conditions causing collisions on the M61, the M66 and Mancunian Way, and Greater Manchester Police urging drivers to “take care on the roads and only travel if you need to”. Three “severe” flood warnings for danger to life issued by the Environment Agency remain in place: for the English River Dee at Farndon, the River Bollin and Agden Brook at Little Bollington and the River Bollin at Heatley. He told BBC Radio Wales: “We had an incident at Wrexham Industrial Estate, the Oxford vaccination is produced there and the warehouse where it is stored, obviously I can’t tell you where it is, but we had to work in partnership to make sure we didn’t lose the vaccinations in the floods.”.