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Lower River Mersey including Warrington, Runcorn and Lymm areas

The Lower River Mersey catchment includes the Fishington, Bradley, Sow, Keckwick and Lumb Brooks and their tributaries

Flood alert area River Mersey Cheshire East, Halton, Salford, Trafford, Warrington Gtr Mancs Mersey and Ches

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Nearby Monitoring Stations

Westy in this area

River Mersey • Westy • 2.0 km (upstream)

Falling · normal — Down from 3.87 at 15:15, now 3.83

Fiddlers Ferry on the boundary

River Mersey • Penketh • 4.8 km (downstream)

River Mersey • Flixton • 14.6 km (downstream)

Easing · normal — Easing — down from 0.53 at 14:30, now 0.51

River Mersey • Urmston • 17.2 km (downstream)

structure gauge

River Mersey • Northenden • 22.1 km (downstream)

Steady · normal

River Mersey • Didsbury • 23.1 km (downstream)

Easing · normal — Easing — down from 2.93 at 18:00, now 2.91

River Mersey • Stockport • 27.2 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

Sankey Brook • Sankey • 2.9 km

Morris Brook on the boundary

Morris Brook • Warrington • 2.9 km

structure gauge

Ferry Lane, Warrington in this area

Manchester ship canal • Warrington • 3.6 km

structure gauge

Flood Event History (4)

18 Jun 2023 at 4:21pm Flood Alert

9 Feb 2020 at 1:30pm Flood Alert

27 Oct 2013 at 3:12pm Flood Alert

17 Aug 2012 at 4:25pm Flood Alert

Related Flood Areas

Official sources for this area

This area on the Environment Agency’s flood service →
Floodline quick dial: 143117 — call 0345 988 1188 and give that code for a recorded update on this area.
Area code: 013WAFLM

Live warnings and area boundaries are the Environment Agency’s and the EA is the authority on them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This area in the EA’s own data.