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Severe flooding expected. Take action immediately.
This Severe Flood Warning has been issued because river levels have risen at the Old Wye Bridge river gauge as a result of heavy rainfall. Consequently, flooding of property and roads is possible today, Monday, 17/02/20. Please activate any property flood protection products you may have, such as flood barriers and air brick covers and have a bag ready with vital items like medicines and insurance documents. River levels at Old Wye Bridge have peaked at 6.11m midday today, Monday 17/02/20. Further rainfall is expected over the next 12 hours as a result of Storm Dennis. We expect river levels to remain high over the next couple of days. We are closely monitoring the situation. Our incident response staff are liaising with emergency services. This message will be updated by 3am on Tuesday 18/02/20, or as the situation changes.
Information supplied by the Environment Agency
This information last updated 4:32pm, Monday 17th February 2020.
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Mon 16 Jan 2023, 4:53pm
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Fri 13 Jan 2023, 7:00am
Warning no longer in force
Tue 18 Feb 2020, 12:56pm
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Tue 18 Feb 2020, 4:00am
Severe Flood Warning
Mon 17 Feb 2020, 4:32pm
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Mon 17 Feb 2020, 12:18pm
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River Wye at Blackmarstone, Hereford
Region: West Midlands
Country: England
Counties covered: Herefordshire
Watercourses covered: River Wye
The area bounded in blue on the map shows the area covered by flood alerts and warnings for River Wye at Blackmarstone, Hereford.
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).
No current or recent warnings.