YOUR LOCAL HIGHGROUND

[I-K-E]

I live part way up a side of a valley between 2 west Pennine moors at 680ft

the last flooding we had around here was all further into town at the bottom of the valley and that was due to problems with the drains and the fact that the local river/stream is culverted under a bulk of the town and I think the culvert was partially blocked and the water basically pushed up through the pavement. The Environment agency have spent a few months sorting out that problem.

At my end of the town alot of water came off the moors and through the local park (council havn't cleaned the drains in the Park of years). The water basically rushed down the Park and on to the main road from there it headed down in town and dropped in to the river/stream where it was not culverted.

one at my end of the town had any issues so I'm not to worried but if I ad to leave we'd just head up to the moors round here