Flood watch
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No warnings in force for the Lower Lea
The Environment Agency has nothing in force for this stretch. The River Lee at Lea Bridge is 5.87m.
Environment Agency · Lower Lea Valley
No warnings in force
This page repeats the Environment Agency’s warnings. It does not issue its own, and EVH is not an emergency service.
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Who to tell
A neighbourhood heads-up, for information.
The warnings here are the Environment Agency’s, repeated. For official alerts, call Floodline. If there is a danger to life, call 999.
- Who issues a warning
- The Environment Agency, and only them. This page repeats their state for the Lower Lea Valley. It never upgrades a reading into a warning of its own.
- What a level does and does not tell you
- It tells you whether the river is high for this station. It is not a forecast for a particular building, and most of E20 sits behind flood defences.
- Which gauge this is
- Lea Bridge, the nearest Environment Agency gauge upstream of E20. There is no gauge at Old Ford, and labelling a Lea Bridge reading as somewhere else would be inventing a measurement location.
- Why Bow Creek is not shown
- It is tidal, so it swings by more than a metre twice a day for entirely normal reasons. Shown as a trend beside a non-tidal station it looks like a river rising fast.
- This is not an emergency service
- If there is an immediate danger to life, call 999. For official guidance and to sign up for alerts, use the GOV.UK service linked above.
