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River Levels and flood warnings
River and sea levels are checked regularly by a network of monitoring stations operated by the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency. Flood warnings and flood alerts are published whenever flooding is expected. The Flood Forecasting Centre, a collaboration between the Environment Agency and the Met Office, provides a detailed five day flood forecast for England and Wales.
RiverLevels.UK is an independent website which draws together data from all of these sources to provide a unified river levels and flood warnings map as well as detailed information for each river level monitoring station and flood warning area.
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Farndon: The History of a Cheshire Village, Frank A. Latham (Ed.)
Page 90/91; (written and published in 1981) Regarding the present state of the river, Mr. Alan Weston, of the Welsh Water Authority, writes:— The water levels in the Dee at Farndon have only been continuously monitored since 1973. At low summer flows the river levels are partly controlled by the level of Chester weir some 20 kms (by river) downstream. The river between Farndon and Chester at low flows is virtually a 'pond'. High spring tides sweep over Chester weir and can cause rises in water level of 0.5m or more at Farndon at low flows and typically affect the flow/levels to varying degrees for up to 30% of the time (mostly during the summer months). At high winter flows the Holt meadows are flooded for a few days each year. Typical water levels in summer are around 4.6 metres above Ordnance Datum Newlyn (a place in Cornwall) while winter flows can easily raise levels to 8.0 metres AODN. The depth of the water downstream of the bridge is around 1.5 to 2 metres at low flows'. Everyone living in the parish will know about the Dee flooding. The biggest flood in this century is said to be that of February 1946 when the water stretched over the road on the Holt side. At this time cattle had to be saved from the river at Churton by the use of army 'ducks'.taken from Frank A. Latham (Ed.), Farndon: The History of a Cheshire Village, (1981) [Photo to the left shows samples being taken from the Dee to test water quality. This is repeated twice daily from several points along the river, before being taken to labs in Chester for analysis.] |
VIDEO
Farndon Bridge flood 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon Bridge flood 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge low level comparison 1905 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge low level comparison 1905 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge area, 21 Jan 2021
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
Farndon-Holt Bridge, 21 Jan 2021 |
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