This station includes an automated model. The highest level in the model is 0.37m on 25 March at 3:00pm. Read more about how we forecast river levels. Top of normal range. Low-lying land flooding...

The scheme uses a weir that has been in place for over 600 years and was originally built to supply water to Whalley Abbey. It employs a variable speed Archimedean screw, 3.6 metres in diameter which, at peak output of 100kW, passes six tonnes of water per second.

Jan 7, 2025 · A Ribble Valley councillor says the Whalley area came 'perilously close to disaster' with new flooding - when east Lancashire's River Calder rose to the second-highest level since the Boxing Day floods of 2015.

Mar 14, 2025 · Grid Reference SD7292736054 River Name River Calder Catchment Area 316 km² Station Reference (Telemetry) 712615 Station ID (WISKI) 712615. For flood monitoring information at this station please visit Check for flooding in England. For peak flow data for this station and further metadata, including a description, suitability for flood estimation studies, and the catchment boundary, see the ...

Hi-def webcam at Whalley Weir. With regular river reports from the area, and an extensive archive of images from the past days, months and even years, this is the greatest way to view the beauty of Whalley Weir and see how fishing conditions develop.

The usual range of the River Calder at Whalley Weir is between 0.33m and 3.33m. It has been between these levels for 90% of the time since monitoring began. The typical recent level of the River Calder at Whalley Weir over the past 12 months has been between 0.31m and 1.64m.

The River Calder has a man made weir section at Whalley, which supposedly allowed the monks of Whalley Abbey to collect water easily. It has been suggested that was one of the main reasons for the abbey being built where it was. The river here has two small islands made of …

Oct 1, 2024 · The River Calder at Whalley Weir is also falling, having reached 2.62m at 8pm yesterday. As of 9am, the water is reported to have dropped to 1m. A yellow rain warning is no longer in force for...

We now have a fully sustainably powered 100kW hydro installation at Whalley Weir, providing water to an area of 315 sq km’s of built up and rural areas, donating a fifth of the income it receives for Community Benefit to fund further carbon reduction and renewable energy schemes.

This map shows the appoximate outline of the catchment area which feeds into the measuring station at Whalley Weir. All the rain which falls onto the blue area, that is not absorbed into the soil or evaporated, will eventually flow to the sea via Whalley Weir.