This in from Island Roads, in their own words. Ed
Island Roads would like to inform you of steps we are taking given the forecast of further heavy rainfall and high winds later today.
In addition to maintaining sandbag stocks at the usual locations (Simeon Street, Ryde, St Mary’s car park, Cowes and Well Road, East Cowes,) we are putting stocks at the following locations:
Carisbrooke High Street car park.
Seaview Duver.
Nicholas Close, and Devonia Gardens Brading.
River Road Car Park, Yarmouth.
Newport Quay.
Moa Place, Freshwater
We will be informing residents and the media of these additional sandbags via Twitter when they are available.
There are 150 sandbags at River Road Car Park, Yarmouth with another 150 on the way. Please only take a maximun of 6 per household.
— Island Roads (@IslandRoads) January 14, 2015
There are 100 sandbags at Quay St, Newport, junction to Sea St. Please only take a maximum of 6 per household.
— Island Roads (@IslandRoads) January 14, 2015
50 sandbags have been delivered to Devonia Gardens, Brading in the layby. Please only take a maximum of 6 per household.
— Island Roads (@IslandRoads) January 14, 2015
50 sandbags have been delivered to Nicholas Close, Brading. Apologies for the earlier incorrect Tweet. Please only take a max of 6 sandbags.
— Island Roads (@IslandRoads) January 14, 2015
100 sandbags have been delivered to Carisbrooke High Street Car Park. Please only take a maximum of 6 sandbags.
— Island Roads (@IslandRoads) January 14, 2015
Extra checks
Our district responders and cleansing teams have been carrying out additional inspections of vulnerable spots (such as trash screens), ditch clearance and gulley cleansing.
In addition we have also been undertaking a programme of extra checks across the Island to ensure resources of equipment such as floodboards are available. Additional resources are on standby across Island Roads’ operations should they be required.
We hope these steps will help to mitigate the effects of the forthcoming weather.
Image: Jayel Aheram under CC BY 2.0
