Environment Agency monitoring directory
Lower River Wear from Escomb to Sunderland including the Rivers Browney, Cong Burn and Lumley Park Burn
Live Environment Agency feed
Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- River Wear, Moors Burn, Smallhope Burn
- Directory county
- County Durham
- EA operational area
- County Durham, Sunderland
- 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.
Preston-Le-Skerne
River Skerne · Tees
Houghton Le Spring
Moors Burn · Wear
Bedburn
Bedburn Beck · Wear
Oakley Cross Beck
Oakley Cross Beck · Wear
Bradbury
River Skerne · Tees
Burn Hall
River Browney · Wear
Spring Gardens Dam
River Gaunless · Wear
West Auckland
River Gaunless · Wear
Dovecote Hill
River Gaunless · Wear
Durham New Elvet Bridge
River Wear · Wear
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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