West Midlands Environment Agency team to continue to keep 'careful eye' on river levels in upcoming days
Heavy rainfall from Storm Claudia last week led to some bursting their banks, flooding nearby areas and roads, with some river levels remaining high throughout Monday (16 November)
The Environment Agency's (EA) West Midlands team has said it will keep monitoring river levels in the region which remain high in places following Storm Claudia.
Heavy rain towards the end of last week led to some rivers bursting their banks, flooding nearby areas and roads, with flood warnings and alerts remaining for areas throughout yesterday.
One school in particular in Herefordshire also remained closed on Monday, Peterchurch Primary School saying 'severe weather conditions' had caused them 'significant flooding' and it was working to restore the school 'as quickly as possible'.
EA spokesperson for the West Midlands Matthew Lawrence is expecting river levels to have reached their peaks by midweek and they will start to drop following that, but they'll watching closely as they will still be high.
He said: "The rainfall forecast for the rest of the week is more settled, there's a bit of rain to come but not huge amounts, so we're not expecting the problems to get any worse.
"River levels will begin to sort of return to normal over the rest of the week, but that means any fresh rainfall that does fall in the catchment, the ground's very wet and saturated, so it'll find its way into our rivers fairly quickly.
"So we just need to keep a careful eye on any rainfall in the coming days to see what effect that has."
Lawrence also added they estimated 7,000 houses were protected from flooding by their flood defences over the weekend across the West Midlands.