'The problem is that when drivers go through floods, the swell from their vehicles pushes the water over people’s doorsteps'
There are calls for the system that helps protect a Chorley village from flooding to respond more quickly when river and risk levels rise.
“It takes four stages for the dam to be fully closed. On Sunday, it was triggered at 6.15pm – but that full closure didn’t happen until 10.45pm.“That’s because – built into the system – there is a 90-minute mandatory delay between each stage. So it takes all that time from being triggered to get to the final stage.
The dam was installed upstream of the village, towards Eccleston, six years ago after widespread flooding saw 340 properties flooded in the Boxing Day storm of 2015. Richard Guinness accepts that the dam’s operation may have been designed in the way that it has “for reasons which we don’t understand”. He says that previous appeals to the EA for a change have been met with “models, graphs and histories” showing why the current arrangement is the best one.
‘Everyone played their part’ A councillor has paid tribute to the “community effort” that got going to protect Croston once it became clear that Sunday’s deluge risked doing more than giving the village a good soaking. The blocking of that route compounded other road closures as a result of deep, standing water – with Grape Lane and Syd Brook Lane amongst those shut. Parish councillors acted as marshals to redirect village and through traffic – and Cllr Strachan says that the co-operation of drivers prevented more homes from being flooded
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