{"id":419,"date":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/08\/01\/extreme-weather-causes-whaley-bridge-dam-collapse-derbyshire-town-is-being-evacuated-in-the-midst-of-fears-flooding-could-make-the-dam-burst-31st-august-2019\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:52:37","slug":"extreme-weather-causes-whaley-bridge-dam-collapse-derbyshire-town-is-being-evacuated-in-the-midst-of-fears-flooding-could-make-the-dam-burst-31st-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/uk-weather\/extreme-weather-causes-whaley-bridge-dam-collapse-derbyshire-town-is-being-evacuated-in-the-midst-of-fears-flooding-could-make-the-dam-burst-31st-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme weather causes Whaley Bridge dam collapse - Derbyshire town is being evacuated in the midst of fears flooding could make the dam burst. 1st August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Environment Agency have begun calls for the area of Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire to be evacuated.&nbsp;<\/strong><br>Thousands of people are being evacuated due to the floods in the area, declaring that lives are at risk as a result of the damn wall collapsing at Toddbrook Reservoir.&nbsp;<br>The reservoir sits above the town, situated at High Peak 181 metres above sea level.&nbsp;<br><br>Toddbrook is popular amongst families including runners, walkers and cyclists.<br>Tracks and bridleways in the area have been closed temporarily.<br>A police warning advises  the town's 6,500 residents&nbsp; to gather at nearby Chapel High school where further information will be available. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/whaley-bridge-dam.png\" alt=\"Whaley Bridge Dam\" class=\"wp-image-2155\" width=\"509\" height=\"445\"\/><figcaption>Whaley Bridge Dam (source Google Maps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Significant localised flooding is expected. Local people should stay with friends or family where at all possible. Substantial rainfall in recent days has caused the reservoir to overflow. As a result there is now a real risk of the village flooding.&nbsp;<br><br>The Canal And River Trust said in a statement: \"We've been notified that there has been some damage to the spillway at Toddbrook Reservoir which feeds the Peak Forest Canal. We have a team of engineers on site at the moment assessing the damage and determining what the next steps are.\"<br><br>There is a yellow weather warning for rain in place from the Met Office for the area until 20:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environment Agency have begun calls for the area of Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire to be evacuated.&nbsp;Thousands of people are being evacuated due to the floods in the area, declaring that lives are at risk as a result of the damn wall collapsing at Toddbrook Reservoir.&nbsp;The reservoir sits above the town, situated at High Peak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-weather","category-weather","category-weather-warnings"],"acf":[],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}