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Wash Dike at Pontefract

Properties on, or near Bondgate, Cavendish Avenue, Beech Croft and Atkinson Lane in Pontefract

Flood warning area Wash Dike Wakefield Yorkshire In Wash Dike catchment

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Nearby Monitoring Stations

Pontefract Wash Dike in this area

Wash Dike • Pontefract • 0.2 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

Ferrybridge Fishergate

Wash Dike • Ferrybridge • 2.4 km (downstream)

Steady · normal

Ferrybridge Lock

River Aire • Ferrybridge • 2.6 km

structure gauge

Fairburn Sluices

Aire Washlands • Fairburn Sluices Washland Level • 4.5 km

structure gauge

Knottingley Bank Dole Lock

River Aire • Knottingley • 4.7 km

structure gauge

River Aire • Castleford • 5.5 km

Steady · normal

River Went • Went Bridge • 5.7 km

Steady · normal

West Holme Washlands

Aire Washlands • 6.2 km

River Calder • Whitwood • 6.6 km

Easing · normal — Easing — down from 1.30 at 12:45, now 1.28

Aire Washlands • Leeds • 6.6 km

Steady · normal

Flood Event History (12)

5 Dec 2024 at 6:13pm Flood Warning

8 Jul 2023 at 10:56pm Flood Warning

30 Sep 2021 at 5:29pm Flood Warning

27 Sep 2021 at 8:59am Flood Warning

9 Feb 2020 at 11:51am Flood Warning

24 Sep 2019 at 1:17pm Flood Warning

20 Sep 2018 at 6:29pm Flood Warning

22 Jul 2017 at 8:52am Flood Warning

25 Aug 2016 at 2:58pm Flood Warning

22 Aug 2015 at 6:04pm Flood Warning

4 Jul 2015 at 4:28am Flood Warning

31 Mar 2015 at 12:42am Flood Warning

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Official sources for this area

This area on the Environment Agency’s flood service →
Floodline quick dial: 304146 — call 0345 988 1188 and give that code for a recorded update on this area.
Area code: 123FWF196

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