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Torrential rain lashes Lancashire - but hosepipe ban stays

8:20pm Tuesday 20th July 2010 in


DRIVERS heeded warnings today to take extra care as torrential rain lashed Lancashire.

The deluge led the Highways Agency to post advisory speed limits of 50mph across the motorway network and warnings to drivers to slow down, put their lights on and increase their breaking distances.

And teams from United Utilities were sent out to investigate flooded roads after complaints were made as water was not draining away.

Ten teams were sent out after problems were flagged up about the surface water causing dangerous conditions.

But Lancashire Constabulary’s Road Policing department said there had been no accidents despite the fact that A and B roads were suffering from significant flooding problems.

PC Derek Brownless said: “There have been no major problems even though roads like the A59 are like a river.”

A spokesman for the Highways Agency said: “We have warning signs across the network warning people of issues with spray and excess flood water.

"Signs advising drivers to travel at 50mph are also in place across the network.”

In Chorley, there were reports of flooding on the A6 near Shaw Hill Golf and Country Club, in Blackburn deep surface water was reported in Barbara Castle Way, Limbrick and Northgate; and in Haslingden, there were reports of water not draining away in Manchester Road.

A United Utilities spokesman said: “Members of the public are concerned at the level of surface water. It may be the drainage system is not coping with the sudden volume of water but we will not know until we look into it.”

A hosepipe ban is still on in Lancashire despite the heavy rainfall in the last week.

Lakes and reservoirs are recovering following the deluge of rain, but United Utilities warned further sustained rainfall was still needed.

The North West has only seen two-thirds of the normal average rainfall since April, much simply starting to re-wet the ground that had completely dried out due to the driest seven months on record.

A spokesperson for United Utilities said: “We’re monitoring reservoir levels on a daily basis and we will lift the hosepipe ban as soon as all reservoirs recover to normal.”

Comments(20)

Teeks says...
4:53pm Tue 20 Jul 10

The M65 about an hour ago was the worst ive ever seen it! Was litterally a river, still got idiots in BMW's and the likes thinking they are invincible and travelling at 70mph plus.

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who said that says...
5:00pm Tue 20 Jul 10

good job there's a hose pipe ban!

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Teeks says...
5:02pm Tue 20 Jul 10

who said that wrote:
good job there's a hose pipe ban!
Think we just had a years worth in last hour!!!

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masterdebater.co.uk says...
5:11pm Tue 20 Jul 10

If only there was some way of collecting all this water....

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blackburner says...
5:13pm Tue 20 Jul 10

never mind,
i'm in Egypt at the moment, its currently 47 degees & red hot....
its only started raining because some duckhead ordered a hosepipe ban

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GAYzer says...
6:01pm Tue 20 Jul 10

masterdebater.co.uk wrote:
If only there was some way of collecting all this water....
There is its called a drain hole

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Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
6:14pm Tue 20 Jul 10

United Utils will probably extended the hosepipe ban now.

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Bat E Karen says...
7:23pm Tue 20 Jul 10

masterdebater.co.uk wrote:
If only there was some way of collecting all this water....
You mean like one of them there new-fangled reservoir things? I've heard of them but I don't think we have any around here.

You wouldn't think so anyway.

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pendlerose says...
7:32pm Tue 20 Jul 10

It's probably the wrong sort of rain
to wet!!

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ClitheroeSinceBirth says...
7:38pm Tue 20 Jul 10

Sorry people but its the wrong kind of rain. The rain we have been having the last few days is to wet

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Jack-son says...
8:41pm Tue 20 Jul 10

None of you can have been into the Lake District where reservoirs are at the lowest level I have seen in 40years.
The heavy rains we have just had will be the first real downfall in Cumbria since January.

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Graham Hartley says...
9:22pm Tue 20 Jul 10

Walking through the Dunkenhalgh estate in heavy rain this afternoon was so pleasing because I was saving ten-pounds-a-litre-o
r-so on fuel and wearing little but T-shirt and trousers so saved washing and showering. Away with mentions of Cumbria and Egypt - this is the Lancashire Telegraph.

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ghost of sceptic says...
9:23pm Tue 20 Jul 10

maybe if we stopped building houses and importing people from all over the globe there wouldnt be water shortage! lets get some of the mothballed reservoirs back in operation and build some new.

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useyourhead says...
9:38pm Tue 20 Jul 10

floody great!

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Lifeinthemix says...
10:32pm Tue 20 Jul 10

It always rains when they claim to have the power to ration water...stop believing them and the act dies.
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I look at it this way :
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http://www.lifeinthe
mixtalk.com/?p=15625

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Mikeee47 says...
9:30am Wed 21 Jul 10

I heard on the grape vine UU are looking to extend the Hose ban 'till November? It never rains but pours

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gazz52 says...
9:37am Wed 21 Jul 10

I shouldn't be surprised but I cannot understand the number of drivers without lights on the M65 during the heaviest rainfall I have seen for a long time. All the hazard warning signs suggested a 50mph speed limit, no surprise about the number of vehicles ignoring that. On coming off the motorway at Junction 3 the car in front swithced his lights off on the slip road immediately, as if he was saving his electric bill!! I am swiftly turning into Victor Meldrew, help!!!!!

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Woody Riversider says...
11:16am Wed 21 Jul 10

Would be no hose-pipe ban here in the North West should they cease shipping the water down South !!

Never in a month of Sunday's do we as a populace squander the water of the North !!

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masterdebater.co.uk says...
12:09pm Wed 21 Jul 10

If they are desparate there's some water in my basement.

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Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
6:29pm Wed 21 Jul 10

Fact is, this is going to become a yearly episode as more and more of our water flows down south.

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