A night of torrential rain on top of several wet days has led to an ‘act now’ flood warning being put in force for the Carisbrooke and Hunnyhill areas, alongside flood alerts for St John’s in Ryde, the Eastern Yar and the Western Yar at Freshwater.
The Environment Agency says that flooding is likely on the Lukely Brook, especially surrounding the river at Carisbrooke and Hunnyhill in Newport. However, due to industrial action, specific information relating to today’s flood risk is not available.
The warning – which encourages locals to take immediate action – is accompanied by a less severe flood alert for the Lukely Brook as a whole.
Flood alerts are also in place for St John’s in Ryde, with flooding normally affecting areas in the bottom of the valley from Simeon Street and through to Smallbrook. Island Line trains could well be affected.
A separate flood alert is in force for the Eastern Yar, from Whitwell to Bembridge. River levels have already been causing issues with Morton Common closed due to flooding.
Rather unusually, a flood alert is now also in force for the Western Yar – something not commonly seen. Those living in the Easton and Afton areas of Freshwater should be aware of the risk of flooding from the River Yar, with water levels set to be high along its entire length to Yarmouth.
Islanders are being told to avoid using low lying footpaths or entering areas prone to flooding and to start acting on your flood plan if you have one.
UPDATE @ 08:00 – A further flood warning has been issued, this time for Whitwell, Wroxall, Langbridge and Alverstone along the Eastern Yar river.
Another alert has also been issued, this time for the River Medina.
That means a total of 2 flood warnings and 5 flood alerts are now in place.
The reason Morton Common floods is because greedy developers built houses right alongside the river so now flood water has nowhere to go. Stand by for more flooding as greedy developers build even more houses stopping flood water from draining away. The blame goes on to council planners allowing it to happen. The volume of concrete for each house base, equals the same amount of water that can’t drain away. Work it out for yourselves, it’s not rocket science!
Totally agree with you Gaz but all this could of been averted if the sluice gates at st helens were opened to drain the so called wet lands owned by the RSPB who are unapproachable and oblivious to peoples concerns. There intention is to make all the marshes up to browns golf club a wet land for twitchers .
I didn’t realize that Chris,but of course it makes sense. Simple theory is, if it can’t
drain away on it’s own, it will find it’s own way and flood somewhere else