Floodway for iPhone
Floodway shows live river gauge readings from every gauge in Australia, 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. The app is the same data as this site, on the phone that is with you when you are standing at the crossing, and it keeps the last readings it had when the signal goes.
Switch on a gauge and it tells you when the river crosses a flood class, and again when it drops back. During an event the level sits on your lock screen and keeps itself current.
Free, and staying free
- Every gauge in the country, live, against the Bureau’s flood classes
- The whole river as one picture, upstream to downstream
- Past floods, their peaks, and how long water took to travel
- Alerts on two places, and a lock-screen card during an event
Floodway Pro
Hours of notice, not minutes. Pro pays for the part that costs something to run: watching the record, hour after hour, for the rise that is on its way to you.
- Every gauge you want to watch
- The free tier covers two places. Pro lifts the cap, so the crossing, the pump and the gauge above them can all wake your phone.
- Water on its way from upstream
- When a gauge above you starts to rise, Floodway tells you it is coming and roughly how long that water has taken before — measured from those two gauges’ own record. Never modelled, never a forecast.
- The peak, as it passes
- A notification when the river crests at your gauge and begins to fall, so the hours of watching it stop being yours.
Monthly or yearly, managed in your Apple Account and cancellable there at any time. Prices are shown in the app before anything is charged.
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 and feeds stall. A gauge that has stopped reporting is marked stale rather than hidden, and no reading is ever shown without its age. The expected peak is a median of how long past rises have actually taken between two gauges — measured from the record, never modelled and never a forecast.