The exercise will start with the closing of floodgates at Waitrose and the Dane Bridge, as well as setting up temporary flood defences outside Wildwood and the cinema. <\/p>\n
As part of this phase, the far end of London Road will close and an alternative route will be provided.<\/p>\n
Temporary defences are made of aluminium and can be erected in about 45 minutes in the event of a flood alert or warning.<\/p>\n
At Dane Bridge, two layers of barriers act as a channel to keep water within the River Dane, preventing it from spilling over towards London Road or Watling Street.<\/p>\n
The floodgates can be closed in minutes and create a seal to protect the town from floodwater.<\/p>\n
The scheme was deployed multiple times over the 2024-25 storm season, including during Storm Bert and at New Year.<\/p>\n
Green added: “These emergency response plans should give reassurance to residents in Northwich. <\/p>\n
“However, it is important to remember that we can never fully protect against flooding.<\/p>\n
“Residents should always prepare in advance for this by going online and signing up for free flood warnings.”<\/p>\n
Councillor Karen Shore, cabinet member for environment, transport and highways at Cheshire West and Chester Council, added: “Our teams are supporting the Environment Agency’s important and large-scale exercise this weekend to test temporary and permanent flood barriers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The exercise will start with the closing of floodgates at Waitrose and the Dane Bridge, as well as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-224750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}