The town saved from disaster and the £15m project designed to stop it happening again for another 10,000 years
It's well-dressing weekend in Whaley Bridge and in an old workshop just off the high street four women are putting together the intricate boards which will make the up centrepiece of the festival. But despite the upcoming festivities the talk is of just how close the town came to catastrophe four years earlier.
"I picked up stupid things I didn't need," she said. "I got my flannel but didn't take a nightie. I was just numb, but I knew if the dam went the whole house would be gone. The town would just have been swept away." Thankfully the emergency measures worked and a disaster was averted. Within a week the dam was declared safe and the townspeople were allowed to return home.
The pumps put in place in 2019 are still there and are occasionally called upon if the water level starts to rise, transferring water into the River Goyt below. And having come so close to catastrophe, Ms Sharman says the repairs have been engineered in the hope of ensuring a similar emergency never happens again.
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