Environment Agency monitoring directory
Upper River Wear from source to Witton Park
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Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- River Wear
- Directory county
- County Durham
- EA operational area
- County Durham
- 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.
Stanhope
River Wear · Wear
Lowlands
River Gaunless · Wear
Bedburn
Bedburn Beck · Wear
Oakley Cross Beck
Oakley Cross Beck · Wear
Copley
River Gaunless · Wear
Spring Gardens Dam
River Gaunless · Wear
West Auckland
River Gaunless · Wear
Eastgate
Rookhope Burn · Wear
Barnard Castle
River Tees · Tees
Dovecote Hill
River Gaunless · Wear
Nearby designated monitoring areas
Properties and low lying areas around the Old Bridge House and the Honest Lawyer Hotel
River Wear · designated warning area
Properties at Green Lane, Old Elvet, Orchard Drive, The Sands Flats, and Barker's Haugh
River Wear · designated warning area
Properties and low lying areas around Lowgarth Farm, North Lodge, West Lodge and Durham Wildlife Trust
River Wear · designated warning area
Wear estuary from Lamb Bridge at Chester-le-street to the North Sea coast
River Wear · designated alert area
Properties and low lying areas around the Batts, Bishop Auckland
River Wear · designated warning area
Properties and low lying areas around Horn Hall, Weardale Community Hospital, Rose Terrace, Newtown House, Waterside Court and Unthank Mill
River Wear · designated warning area
Properties around Attwood Terrace, Ward Terrace, Silver Street, Cooperative Terrace, East End, The Causeway and Riverdale
River Wear · designated warning area
Properties at New Elvet, Elvet Waterside, Framwellgate Waterside, Providence Row, Wearside Drive, and Frankland Lane
River Wear · designated warning area
Properties at Flatts Farm at Bishop Auckland, Farnley, Furness Mill Farm and Lowfield Farm Cottages at Willington, Shafto House and New Row at Page Bank
River Wear · designated warning area
Properties around Wear Lodge, The Butts, Butts Crescent, Park View, Wear Terrace, Sycamore House, Stanhope Caravan Park, Bondisle Way and Riverwood Lodges
River Wear · designated warning area
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.
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