Flooding Information

Derbyshire County Council are the lead local flood authority who is responsible for coordinating a response via local authorities and the emergency services during a major flood event.

Flooding support

Here we provide information on:

• information for communities affected by flooding
• organisations involved in managing flood risk in Derbyshire and their responsibilities
• identifying if you are at risk from flooding
• reporting flooding
• flood protection and resilience measures
• cleaning up after a flood

As well as this you can find information about our role, responsibilities and duties as the Lead Local Flood Authority under the Flood And Water Management Act 2010 including:

• our Local Flood Risk Strategy for Derbyshire
• Derbyshire's Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment (PFRA)
• our responsibility for ordinary watercourses land drainage consent under the Land Drainage Act (1991)
• our duty to create and maintain an asset register of all structures deemed to have a significant flood risk impact.
• our duty to investigate flood events within Derbyshire
• our powers under Section 25 of the Land Drainage Act regarding the resolution of flooding issues and identification of parties responsible for causing flooding

Updates

For updates about roads closed due to flooding and surface water, please check our weather related road closures.

Please remember that additional local roads may be closed across the county due to localised surface water flooding.

If you're heading out, only travel if your journey is essential, drive to the conditions and please don't be tempted to drive through floodwater. As little as 30cm of water can float a car. Driving through floodwater can also cause flooding to properties next to the road.

Sign up to get flood warnings or see the latest flood warnings for your area.

Search for flood risk in your area and find out the possible causes of flooding and how to manage flood risk.

Find out how to report flooding.

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Flood warnings

The Environment Agency is responsible for issuing flood warnings to the public. It provides a dedicated Floodline information service telephone: 0845 988 1188. The line operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

The flood warning information is updated every 15 minutes.#

Further information is also available on the Amber Valley Borough Council website as detailed in the link shown below.