MORE help is on offer to stop flooding in the Spen Valley.
Residents at risk from flooding from the River Spen and its tributaries Balcup Beck, Lands Beck and Canker Dyke are being urged to take advantage of the Environment Agency’s free flood warning service.
The service is to be extended to communities in Cleckheaton, Liversedge, Heckmondwike, Littletown and Ravensthorpe.
A total of 1,251 homes and businesses in the area will be able to sign up to the Floodline Warnings Direct service, and receive personalised updates that can be sent to landlines, mobile phones, pagers and faxes, or by email and text message.
Residents and businesses at risk will be contacted by letter in late February with full information on how they can sign up to the flood warning service.
The service for the new area will go live in March, and after that date whenever the Environment Agency issues flood warnings they will be sent to those who want to receive them.
During the flood of 2007 many streets were badly affected, including St Peg Lane and St Peg Close, Radulf Gardens, Ings Crescent, Valley Road, Green Lane and Sackville Street.
Claire Fyfe, of the Environment Agency’s flood incident management team said: “Floods don’t just happen to other people, as the people of Spen Valley know only too well.
“We want to encourage everyone who receives a letter about our flood warning service to register to Floodline Warnings Direct, even if they were not affected in 2007.
“This will allow them to choose how they receive flood warning messages and let them manage these details online.”
