Sepa is braced for a 'potentially significant event' as rivers continue to rise in south Scotland.
Flooding has caused travel disruption across Scotland after heavy rain in many parts of the country.The Scottish Environment Protection Agency There were fears that communities in southern Scotland could be badly hit as river levels rise, leading to a "potentially significant" event.covering Dumfries and Galloway and the Borders, with 40-50mm of rain forecast.
"We are already seeing impacts to transport and to agricultural land, but the rivers are rising rapidly in response to that intense rain," he said."We are keeping a particular close eye on communities in Dumfries and Galloway and the Borders area - communities like Dumfries, Hawick, Peebles and Newton Stewart - but we are also monitoring further north into the Clyde Valley and Kelvin Valley and the Water of Leith.
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