River levels will continue to fall throughout the day. Further rainfall is forecast over the weekend. Our incident response staff are monitoring river levels and will issue further updates where necessary.
Information supplied by the Environment Agency
This information last updated 9:01am, Friday 15th January.
The Sankey catchment includes Black, Barkers, Windle and Whittle Brooks and their tributaries. Other locations which may be affected are around Rainford, Billinge, Prescot, Newton-le-Willows, Haydock, Ashton-in-Makerfield and Golbourne
Region: North West
Counties covered: Lancashire, St. Helens, Warrington, Wigan
Watercourses covered: River Sankey
The area bounded in blue on the map shows the area covered by flood alerts and warnings for River Sankey catchment with St Helens and Warrington.
Icons on the map show nearby level monitoring stations. They are not necessarily related to this particular flood warning area.
Note: the area shown on the map is the area covered by flood alerts and warnings. It is not a live map of current flooding. The area covered broadly equates to the area where the risk of flooding in any year is greater than 1% (the "hundred year" flood risk).
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