Floodway: Australian Rivers

Live river levels for every gauge in Australia — and more than levels.

Floodway shows live readings from every river gauge in the country, read
against the Bureau of Meteorology's own flood classes — minor, moderate,
major — so a number means something before you have to think about it.

Australian rivers, Australian gauges, Australian flood classes. Not a US app
with a few of ours bolted on.

Then it does the part a river height on its own cannot: it watches the gauges
upstream of yours, tells you when your river has peaked and started falling,
and says how long that water has taken to arrive on every past rise.

Built for the people who work the land rather than only live on it: the ones
with a paddock, a pump, or a crossing between them and town.

IT TELLS YOU WHEN IT HAS PEAKED

The hardest question during a rise is not how high it is. It is whether it is
still going up. Star a gauge and Floodway tells you when it crosses a flood
class, and again when it has peaked and started falling — which is the message
that lets you go to bed.

HOW LONG THE WATER TAKES TO GET HERE

When a gauge upstream of you starts to rise, Floodway says so, and says roughly
how long that water has taken to arrive in the past — a median measured from
those two gauges' own shared record. Never modelled, never a forecast. Nobody
else publishes it.

EVERY FLOOD THE GAUGE HAS SEEN

The whole record, not just today: past floods, how high they got, how this
year compares with the last fifty, and the shape of every rise back to when
the gauge was installed.

ALSO

• Live levels with the age of every reading. A height with no timestamp is the
most dangerous thing an app like this can show, so the age is never separated
from the number.
• The whole river as one picture — every gauge from the top of the system to
the bottom, each drawn against its own normal, so you can see a rise moving
down the catchment instead of reading fourteen numbers.
• A map of every gauge, and the ones nearest you.
• During an event the level sits on your lock screen as a Live Activity and
keeps itself current.

FLOODWAY PRO

Every gauge, every river, every chart and the whole record are free, and will
stay free. The free tier of alerts covers two places.

Pro raises that to every gauge you want to watch, and adds the upstream arrival
and peak notifications. Monthly or yearly, and it pays for the part that costs
us something to run: watching the record, hour after hour, for the rise that is
on its way to you.

Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the
period ends, and are managed in your Apple Account.

HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT IS NOT

Floodway is decision support, not an official warning service. Always follow
Bureau of Meteorology flood warnings and your state emergency service's
directions.

Gauges fail, feeds stall, and a gauge that has stopped reporting is marked
stale rather than hidden. Readings are published by the Bureau of Meteorology,
state water agencies and gauge-owning authorities, and the attribution appears
with every reading.

No account. No advertising. No analytics. Your location never leaves your
phone.

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