Environment Agency monitoring directory
The Essex coast at Canvey Island to South Benfleet, and Wat Tyler Country Park and surrounding marshland
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Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- Thames Estuary
- Directory county
- Essex
- EA operational area
- Essex, Thurrock
- 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.
Nearby designated monitoring areas
Canvey Island north of the A130, Long Road
Thames Estuary · designated warning area
Shellhaven to Tilbury, including Mucking and Linford
Thames Estuary · designated warning area
The Essex coast from Fobbing to Purfleet-on-Thames, including Tilbury, Grays and the Dartford Crossing
Thames Estuary · designated alert area
Leigh-on-Sea frontage including the High Street, Chalkwell to Hadleigh marshes and Two Tree Island
Thames Estuary · designated warning area
The Essex coast from Leigh-on-Sea, to and including, Hadleigh Marshes, and Two Tree Island
Thames Estuary · designated alert area
Canvey Island south of the A130, Long Road
Thames Estuary · 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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