Environment Agency monitoring directory
Rivers Wampool and Ellen and other watercourses, from Dalston to Maryport including low lying areas around Wigton, Abbeytown, Silloth, Allonby, Aspatria and Dearham
Live Environment Agency feed
Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- River Wampool, River Ellen
- 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.
Denton Holme
River Caldew · Eden and Esk
Botcherby Bridge, Carlisle
River Petteril · Eden and Esk
Castle Howe
Bassenthwaite Lake · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon
Wiza Beck Storage Basin, Wigton
Wiza Beck · Eden and Esk
Ouse Bridge
River Derwent · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon
Sands Centre, Carlisle
River Eden · Eden and Esk
Cummersdale
River Caldew · Eden and Esk
Bull Gill
River Ellen · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon
Harraby Green Business Park
River Petteril · Eden and Esk
Melbourne Park Carlisle
River Petteril · Eden and Esk
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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