RESIDENTS have been warned of possible flooding in the Mardyke Valley.

The possibility has been raised by the Environment Agency which issued the warning just after 11am today (Monday, 19 December).

The alert stretched from Purfleet, where the Mardyke meets the Thames, back to North Stifford to Purfleet and residents as far upstream as Bulphan have raised concerns that they may be affected - as has been the case in recent years.

The Mardyke this morning.

In September the agency played down residents' flooding fears. The residents and business owners believed appropriate dredging and maintenance work on the river had not been carried out in the summer.

That work is the responsibility of Thurrock Council but it declined to respond to Nub News about what action it had taken, or planned to take.