Environment Agency monitoring directory
The River Colne through Colchester, from the Avenue of Remembrance to Brook Street
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Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- Colne
- Directory county
- Essex
- EA operational area
- Essex
- 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.
Nearby designated monitoring areas
The River Colne from Castle Hedingham to upstream of Halstead, including Sible Hedingham
Colne · designated warning area
The River Colne from Great Yeldham to Colchester, including Castle Hedingham, Sible Hedingham, Halstead, Earls Colne, Wakes Colne, Chappel and Fordstreet
Colne · designated alert area
The River Colne from Halstead to Lexden, including Wakes Colne
Colne · designated warning area
Riverside properties in Colchester, from Westway to East Street, including Lower Castle Park and the cricket ground
Colne · 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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