Environment Agency monitoring directory
Flooding of properties in Whitehaven Town Centre area
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Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- Irish Sea
- Directory county
- Cumberland
- EA operational area
- Cumberland
- Coverage category
- Designated Flood Warning 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.
St Leonards
River Keekle · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon
South Street Footbridge
River Cocker · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon
Braystones
River Ehen · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon
Workington
Tide · England - West Coast
Seaton Mill, Barepot, Workington
River Derwent · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon
Kingfisher, Cockermouth
River Derwent · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon
Bleach Green Weir
River Ehen · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon
Egremont
River Ehen · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon
Scalehill Upper Lorton Valley
River Cocker · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon
Calder Hall
River Calder · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon
Nearby designated monitoring areas
Silloth to St Bees including Maryport, Flimby, Workington and Whitehaven
Irish Sea · designated warning area
Low lying areas along the coast from Silloth to St Bees Head including Allonby, Maryport, Flimby, Workington, Parton and Whitehaven
Irish Sea · designated alert area
Gretna to Silloth including properties at Skinburness, Whinclose, Port Carlisle, Salt Cotes, Kirkbride, Port Carlisle, Boustead Hill, and Longburgh
Irish Sea · designated warning area
Coastline from Gretna to Silloth
Irish Sea · designated alert area
St Bees Head to Haverigg including Seascale, Ravenglass, Saltcoats and beach front properties at Coulderton, Nethertown and Braystones
Irish Sea · designated warning area
Low Lying areas along the coast from St Bees Head to Haverigg including Ravenglass and Annaside
Irish Sea · designated alert area
Silloth to St Bees Head including Whitehaven town centre, Whitehaven North Beach, Parton, Workington, Flimby and Maryport
Irish Sea · designated warning area
St Bees Head to Haverigg including Seascale, Ravenglass, Saltcoats, Hall Carleton and Annaside
Irish Sea · designated warning area
Gretna to Silloth, areas at risk include properties at Mossband Hall Marsh, Silloth, Burgh Marsh, Port Carlisle, Wampool Estuary, Skinburness Marsh, Skinburness and Rockcliffe
Irish Sea · designated warning area
Area including North Pier, Maryport Marina and Dock, North and South Quay and Strand Street
Irish Sea · 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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