Environment Agency flood-monitoring

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Cambridgeshire Insight
Last updated:
02 December 2025
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Summary

The Environment Agency flood-monitoring API provides developers with access to real time information covering:
•flood warnings and flood alerts
•flood areas which to which warnings or alerts apply
•forecast of flood risks over the next three days
•measurements of water levels and flows
•information on the monitoring stations providing those measurements

These APIs are provided as open data under the Open Government Licence with no requirement for registration. If you make use of this data please acknowledge this with the following attribution statement:

This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)

For questions on the APIs please contact data.info@environment-agency.gov.uk, a forum for announcements and discussion is under consideration.

This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)

More details available at: http://environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/doc/reference#introduction

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TEST Cam and Ely Ouse gauge stations JSON JSON 02 December 2025 Not available
TEST Cambridgeshire Real-Time River Level Measurements JSON 02 December 2025 Not available
Flood monitoring stations JSON 02 December 2025 Not available
Flood warnings JSON 02 December 2025 Not available
Flood areas-Cambridgeshire JSON 12 April 2020 Not available

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