Whaley Bridge dam repair ‘will cost millions’

Work on the damaged Whaley Bridge dam will take years and cost “thousands of millions” to complete.

More than 1,500 people were evacuated from the Derbyshire town on Aug 1 due to fears that the dam wall at the Toddbrook Reservoir would collapse after heavy rain.

Rob Jowitt, project manager, said: “I wouldn’t like to speculate on the scale of the rebuild and repair, but it’s going to be major and potentially two to three years worth of work.

“The scale of the cost could vary massively… It will certainly be in the millions – I’m not sure whether it’ll be in the tens, hundreds or thousands of millions.”