Image source, GoogleRick Ellison grew up in Whaley Bridge and said it was "upsetting" to hear news of the damaged dam.
Mr Ellison, who is the landlord of the Old Hall Hotel in nearby Hope, has offered shelter for any evacuees without a place to stay.
"We've got three rooms here doing nothing, so anyone that's stuck - by all means get in touch," he told BBC Radio Manchester, external.
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Parish councillor and local resident Charles Lawley has popped into his old school with supplies for Whaley Bridge residents.
The former Chapel-en-le-Frith High School pupil said: "I work for a humanitarian aid charity, so I’ve done this in Syria.
"There’s been so much generosity from the local community."
Speaking to BBC Radio Manchester, Lee Rawlinson, area director of the Environment Agency said: “More heavy rain is coming and we are expecting heavy rain into the night.
"Our engineers are working through the night. Their health and safety is paramount.
"We’ve got mountain rescue with them too so all the right people are in the right place.
Image source, Reuters“The Canal and River Trust is trying to pump down the water levels to allow the engineers better access to the wall. If there was to be a catastrophic failure, all that water in the reservoir could come out very quickly.
“I think the last inspection was 2018. The conditions were okay.
"We don’t know the causes of this yet – we will wait and see what the investigation says.”
Judith Moritz
BBC North of England Correspondent
Chapel-en-le-Frith High School is full tonight - the car park is full of emergency service vehicles who are using it as a command centre.
Inside, sheltering from the rain, which is hammering it down again, are some of the residents from Whaley Bridge.
There are beds available for them should they choose to stay here.
When I spoke to residents as they turned up, the overwhelming feeling was relief that they got out, as there was an overwhelming feeling of panic about this.
By 14:00 they were being told get out and I spoke to one lady who said she’d not even had time to pack a bag.
She just made sure she got the dog out, got her husband and made her way to the school.
This is the moment workers on the Toddbrook Reservoir dam appeared to run for safety earlier.
It happened around 18:00 and was captured by the BBC news helicopter.
It's not clear what happened to make them flee the dam, where they've been laying sandbags and trying to prevent it from bursting and flooding Whaley Bridge below.
This evening BBC Radio Manchester spoke to Lee Rawlinson, the area director of the Environment Agency, who said any failure of the dam would be "catastrophic".
Mr Rawlinson said: "We as an environment agency are deeply concerned and we need to make sure that the reservoir is safe so we’ve issued a severe flood warning because if there was a catastrophic failure it would have devastating impacts to the River Goyt and the communities around it.
"There are quite a lot of dams around this area of the county and these dams are regularly inspected but with the amount of rainfall we’ve had some of these issues can arise."
Image source, AFP/Getty ImagesIn these images from the Press Association, you can see a small tipper truck being used to transport sandbags, which are being stacked on top of the dam.
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The chief of the Canal and River Trust says that there is a risk the dam could break and that teams will be working overnight to avoid such a crisis.
Chief Operating Officer Julie Sharman said: "The spillway for the dam has broken away. We are trying to lower the level of the water in the dam in order to reduce the risk of further erosion. There’s a risk the dam could break.
Image source, Reuters"The engineers are there giving advice and we are working with the emergency services. The sandbags are there to try to protect the spillway to avoid further erosion. We are trying to divert flows of incoming streams into the reservoir. The pumps are being installed to reduce the flow.
"There’s a severe weather warning this evening so we are working flat out to avoid any crisis.
"Clearly the concrete apron has cracked and failed and that will only get worse if water continues to run over it. It’s too early to say how long people will have to stay away but we could be on site for days."
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Matt Mullen, who lives nearby in New Mills, said there are lots of roads closed in the town.
Image source, Matt MullenThe River Goyt, which sits below the dam and Toddbrook Reservoir in Whaley Bridge, also runs through New Mills.
Image source, Matt MullenThe Environment Agency has issued a severe flood warning, external for the river.
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Residents in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, are asked to evacuate after the Toddbrook Reservoir dam wall is damaged.
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Councillor Barry Lewis, leader of Derbyshire County Council, said: "My thoughts are with the residents of Whaley Bridge.
"Lots of people will feel anxious, but let me reassure you that all agencies are pulling together and working extremely hard to keep residents safe."
Mr Lewis urged people affected by the floods and evacuated from their homes and businesses to "listen to the emergency services and stay safe".
Rebecca Morelle
Science correspondent, BBC News
The dam is quite old – it was built in 1831 and is an earth-filled construction.
The problem is the damage is high up. The key is to get the water levels down as fast as you can.
You can divert it out through channels and there is a plug deep down.
The key will be to see if it holds overnight. If it does, there’s a good chance they can repair the dam but it will take months.
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Nigel Carson, who lives near to the dam in Whaley Bridge, said he felt some people in the area were not taking the problem "as seriously as they should".
"The whole of the village is vulnerable to this," he added.
Mr Carson, whose home is above the level of the dam and has therefore not had to be evacuated, said there was nobody down in the "ghost town" at all now.
"They're estimating that without it raining it will take two to three days to get the water level down two metres [but] it's raining heavily again now, and they need to get it down an awful lot more than two metres to make this safe,” he said.
Nick Smith
BBC News Online
Firefighters from across the country are in Whaley Bridge, pumping water from the Toddbrook Reservoir after a partial collapse of its dam today.
The National Fire Chiefs Council say that 10 high volume pumps are currently working at reducing the water levels in the reservoir as there are concern the dam's wall could collapse, external.
This operation is likely to continue over the weekend.
The pumps can move up to 7,000 litres of water per minute to other locations.
Roy Wilsher, Chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council, said: "Fire and Rescue Services from across the country mobilise quickly to situations such as this and play a key role in leading the response.
"Our ability to mobilise our assets in this way is an essential part of our national resilience response."
