Environment Agency monitoring directory
The River Wid from Brentwood, to and including Writtle, and the River Can at Chelmsford
Live Environment Agency feed
Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- River Wid, River Can
- Directory county
- Essex
- EA operational area
- Essex
- 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.
Shonks Mill Bridge
River Roding · Rodding
Chipping Ongar
Cripsey Brook · Rodding
Mountnessing
River Wid · Essex
High Ongar
River Roding · Rodding
Writtle
River Wid · Essex
Wickford
River Crouch · Essex
Moreton
Cripsey Brook · Rodding
Springfield
River Chelmer · Essex
Sandon Bridge
Sandon Brook · Essex
Guithavon Valley
River Brain · Essex
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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