The Environment Agency has just set up a new online service giving up-to-date information on river and sea levels.

It will be useful to people who live or work in an area at risk from flooding, or who use the river for boating or fishing, or are transiting a river navigation.

The new service at www.environment-agency.gov.uk/riverlevels allows the public to monitor the situation at over 1,700 river and coastal locations across England and Wales.

The data will complement personalised voice and text message alerts from their free flood warning service.

For those using mobile broadband there is a text only version.

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