Flooding information hub
To keep up to date with the latest information, please visit our breaking news website page.
Helpful contact information during a flood
If you are experiencing flooding from a watercourse, surface water or groundwater, call 01253 502776 (Nottinghamshire County Council)
If you are experiencing flooding from a blocked highway drain, call 01253 502776 (Nottinghamshire Highway Services Team)
If you are experiencing flooding from a public foul sewer, surface water sewer or a water main, call 0800 783 4444 (Severn Trent Water)
If you are experiencing flooding from a river or reservoir, call 0345 988 1188 (The Environment Agency Flood line) or 0800 80 70 60 (The Environment Agency Incident Hotline)
If you are insured, please contact your insurer who should be able to arrange assistance. This will also help to alleviate other phone lines for people who cannot access such assistance.
Travel information
During any floods, roads can be signficiantly distrupted across Newark and Sherwood. You can check for road closures on the following websites:
- A road closures via National Highways
- Nottinghamshire road closures via Nottinghamshire County Council
You can check for updates before travelling for the following services:
- Nottingham City Transport
- Net Tram via their social media channels and website
- Trentbarton via their Facebook and Twitter
- CT4N via their Twitter and website
Changes to bin collection
There are some distruptions to bin collections this week due to flooding. We will do our best to get to everyone but where areas are unreachable, we will put on special collections as soon as it is safe to do so.