Flooding in Stockport

A555 near Lakeland (I think), often floods, never seen it anything like this bad though

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Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
The airport relief roads floods all the time. Seems like drainage wasn’t thought about and it’s actually causing other areas to flood.
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I was told by a retired surveyor, who lives local, that there will always be trouble on that road because it is way below the water level. That was told to me when they were having trouble when building it. Also, the Bramhall roundabout problem never happened like it does now. This is probably caused by the run off from the bypass near Poynton where the holding tanks overflow into the river that flows through Happ Valley to Bramhall park.
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bluemanchester said:
I was told by a retired surveyor, who lives local, that there will always be trouble on that road because it is way below the water level. That was told to me when they were having trouble when building it. Also, the Bramhall roundabout problem never happened like it does now. This is probably caused by the run off from the bypass near Poynton where the holding tanks overflow into the river that flows through Happ Valley to Bramhall park.
Don't shoot the messenger;-)
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Sounds about right. Pushing the issue down stream. I don’t remember Bramhall having these flooding issues previously
 
East Didsbury looks like the seaside today.Parrs Wood fields under at least six feet of water,houses opposite on Manchester Road flooded,Waterside Hotel evacuated during the night and cars in their car park literally floating
Fletcher Moss looking bad,no road access to Cheadle from Parrs Wood.Apart from that,Happy New Year everyone!!!
 
bluemanchester said:
I was told by a retired surveyor, who lives local, that there will always be trouble on that road because it is way below the water level. That was told to me when they were having trouble when building it. Also, the Bramhall roundabout problem never happened like it does now. This is probably caused by the run off from the bypass near Poynton where the holding tanks overflow into the river that flows through Happ Valley to Bramhall park.
Don't shoot the messenger;-)
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Its been crazy at work today with the number of rescues of people from their homes or cars stuck in water
 
flook said:
A555 near Lakeland (I think), often floods, never seen it anything like this bad though

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Surreal, took me a few seconds to register where I was looking at. Horrible for everyone caught up in it all, best wishes to all impacted that the clear up can be done quickly and the insurance companies are not allowed to behave like scumbags.
 
dobingsdobber said:
East Didsbury looks like the seaside today.Parrs Wood fields under at least six feet of water,houses opposite on Manchester Road flooded,Waterside Hotel evacuated during the night and cars in their car park literally floating
Fletcher Moss looking bad,no road access to Cheadle from Parrs Wood.Apart from that,Happy New Year everyone!!!
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Fletcher Moss has always flooded over the years, a lot of the fields are flood plains. I imagine Toc H is flooded as well.
 
I spent 40 years dealing with flood claims. Hated them. Total devastation for the customers lives and futures - you can't put a time on anything. Drying out a house takes as long as it takes, depends on type of construction - how long the water was in the property even the ongoing conditions - if there is a lot of low pressure it can take longer.
Then there is the reinstatement works. Extensive, expensive and there is a finite number of builders in any given impacted area which inevitably impacts on how long it all takes.
A rotten start to 2025 for those poor folk affected.
 
west didsblue said:
Northenden golf club from the other side of the Mersey. The water in the foreground is the Mersey and it’s the golf course behind the river bank in the middle of the picture.

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I worked on the Mersey flood defences in the 90s, but as a contractor not a designer I should add ! That area is actually designed to flood, it's a flood water compensation/ storage area. It's supposed to take up flood water and alleviate flooding in other areas. But there is clearly too much water for the design at present.
 
Mersey very swollen in Warrington. Thankfully near me there are flood defences but it does sometimes overflow towards the town centre. Usually a few metres below this.

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Churchlawtonblue said:
I worked on the Mersey flood defences in the 90s, but as a contractor not a designer I should add ! That area is actually designed to flood, it's a flood water compensation/ storage area. It's supposed to take up flood water and alleviate flooding in other areas. But there is clearly too much water for the design at present.
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The river reached its highest measured level today. Previous record was 3.22m a couple of years ago when it made the national news. Above 3.5m it’s designed to flood the golf course and Merseybank playing fields. It reached 3.76m which is unprecedented. Normal height is about 0.5m and the typical maximum is 1.8m.
https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/station/5101
 
west didsblue said:
The river reached its highest measured level today. Previous record was 3.22m a couple of years ago when it made the national news. Above 3.5m it’s designed to flood the golf course and Merseybank playing fields. It reached 3.76m which is unprecedented. Normal height is about 0.5m and the typical maximum is 1.8m.
https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/station/5101
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Says at the bottom of that link, ‘Flooding might not happen again at the same historical levels. This may be because flood management schemes are now in place’.
 
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