Environment Agency monitoring directory
River Cam from Newport to Whittlesford including the Slades
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Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- River Cam
- Directory county
- Essex
- EA operational area
- Cambridgeshire, 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.
Great Chesterford
River Cam · Cam and Ely Ouse (Including South Level)
Stansted Mountfitchet, Gypsy Lane
Stansted Brook · Stort
Bishops Stortford, Grange Paddocks
River Stort · Stort
Babraham
River Granta · Cam and Ely Ouse (Including South Level)
Linton
River Granta · Cam and Ely Ouse (Including South Level)
Nearby designated monitoring areas
High Street in Little Chesterford, Manor Lane, Newmarket Road and London Road in Great Chesterford, Church Street and Mill Lane in Ickleton, Hinxton Hall and Mill Lane in Hinxton, Mill Lane in Duxford and Mill Lane in Whittlesford
River Cam · designated warning area
Thaxted Road, Peaslands Road, Farmadine, Radwinter Road, East Street, Hill Street, Gold Street, Cross Street, Market Walk, Market Row, George Street, High Street, Bartletts, Abbey Lane, Primes Close, Park Lane, Freshwell Street and Bridge Street
River Cam · designated warning area
Old Mead Road in Henham, North Hall Road in Quendon, London Road, Station Road, High Street, Bridge End, Willow Vale, Bury Water Lane, Belmont Hill and Cambridge Road in Newport, Duck Street in Wendons Ambo, Mill Lane and Walden Road in Littlebury
River Cam · 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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