Environment Agency monitoring directory
The Gowy catchment includes the River Milton and Hornsmill/Hool, Stanney Mill and Thornton Brooks and their tributaries
Live Environment Agency feed
Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- River Gowy
- Directory county
- Cheshire
- EA operational area
- Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton
- Coverage category
- Designated Flood Alert Area
Use this information safely
- For conditions now: use the live panel and verify on the official flood service.
- For a property: use the official long-term risk checker; this directory is not address-level evidence.
- For river levels: open a nearby monitoring station and check the reading time.
- For immediate danger: follow emergency-service instructions and call 999.
Nearby river-level stations
These are measuring instruments, not reported flood locations. A station reading must be interpreted with its timestamp, station datum and any official threshold context.
Bridge Trafford
River Gowy · Lower Mersey
Ashbrook
River Weaver · Weaver and Dane
Farndon
River Dee · Dee
Hayhurst Bridge
River Weaver · Weaver and Dane
Rudheath
River Dane · Weaver and Dane
Pickerings Cut
River Weaver · Weaver and Dane
Chase Way, Ellesmere Port
Rivacre Brook · Lower Mersey
Knolls Bridge, Chester
Finchett's Gutter · Dee
Property and insurance decisions
Inclusion in an EA monitoring area does not by itself establish a property's flood probability, insurance eligibility or premium. Check the address-level official service and ask the insurer or a qualified surveyor about the property.
Read the flood insurance guide →