Environment Agency monitoring directory
The Wayfarer Pub off Alder Lane and surrounding low lying land
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Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- River Douglas
- Directory county
- Lancashire
- EA operational area
- Lancashire
- Coverage category
- Designated Flood Warning Area
Use this information safely
- For conditions now: use the live panel and verify on the official flood service.
- For a property: use the official long-term risk checker; this directory is not address-level evidence.
- For river levels: open a nearby monitoring station and check the reading time.
- For immediate danger: follow emergency-service instructions and call 999.
Nearby river-level stations
These are measuring instruments, not reported flood locations. A station reading must be interpreted with its timestamp, station datum and any official threshold context.
Wanes Blades
River Douglas · Ribble Douglas and Crossens
Pincock Brow
River Yarrow · Ribble Douglas and Crossens
Appley Bridge
River Douglas · Ribble Douglas and Crossens
Walton-Le-Dale
River Ribble · Ribble Douglas and Crossens
Croston
River Yarrow · Ribble Douglas and Crossens
Bamber Bridge
River Lostock · Ribble Douglas and Crossens
Parbold
River Douglas · Ribble Douglas and Crossens
Nearby designated monitoring areas
The River Douglas from Horwich Star Vale to Appley Bridge including Adlington, Blackrod, Wigan, Standish, and Gathurst
River Douglas · designated alert area
Low lying properties on the right bank of the Douglas, downstream of the Canal Bridge including Burnside, Bankside, Northdene, Southdene, Westdene, Broadmede and Greenfield
River Douglas · designated warning area
River Douglas and other watercourses from Parbold to Tarleton including Rufford, Mawdesley, Croston and Moss Side
River Douglas · designated alert area
Low lying land on the south bank of the River Douglas at Appley Bridge including properties along Appley Lane as far as Speakmans Drive
River Douglas · designated warning area
Low lying properties on the right bank of the Douglas between the Canal and Alder Lane
River Douglas · designated warning area
Property and insurance decisions
Inclusion in an EA monitoring area does not by itself establish a property's flood probability, insurance eligibility or premium. Check the address-level official service and ask the insurer or a qualified surveyor about the property.
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