Published: 11 February 2025
Latest flooding update from Dave Hughes, Environment Agency
Flooding Event in January
Unfortunately, we saw a fairly severe flood event at 6:30am on the 06 January 2025, my first day back from the Xmas holidays. I did manage to get out to the village but unfortunately not until about 3pm by which time the flood peak had largely receded. Thank you everyone, for the many excellent photos and videos that you have sent me. As far as I have been informed, and hopefully this is the case, I don’t believe anyone was internally flooded in this particular event, which we should be grateful for. I have been sent some very good photos and videos showing the channel downstream of the village. That data pointed out that silt has already started to gather in a bank at the footbridge at the end of Brookside. This is where our teams removed an extensive bank of silt last year. It just shows how quickly the silt can be deposited again. Asset Performance have taken a look at this new silt bank and don’t think it currently is enough of an issue to require another round of desilting.
The photos also showed that debris had got caught on the one cattle chain that was left in place on the river. I believe our teams have been out recently and should have cleared the debris from that chain. Otherwise, we were pleased how the channel performed during this event and hopefully the extensive clearance work done by the EA’s Asset Performance team this year may have reduced levels slightly.
There was also flooding around Station Road, School Lane, Chapel Lane, Knowles Hill and Anslow Lane. Some of these issues need to be reported to Staffordshire County Council rather than the EA and we have informed SCC of the issues. Please send me any other evidence you may have of the 06 January 2025 event and if it is not directly related to the Main River flooding, I will seek to ensure it lands on the right desk.
I’m sorry to say that my assignment with the Environment Agency will be finishing at the end of March and I will no longer be your first point of contact after that. Hopefully, we will have finished consideration of the long list of options and will be able to move to the next stages of the project if sufficient resources are available.
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