Roads you watch
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Checking the rivers…
RiverReady reports river height only. It cannot see ice, debris, damage or official closures, and it doesn't cover every crossing. Always look before you drive, and never drive into water.
Enter where you're setting off from and where you're going. RiverReady checks the roads it tracks along that route.
Faded pins are the crossings RiverReady tracks. Enter a start and destination to draw your route and check the ones on it.
How to use this map
Round pins are roads, colored by whether you can drive them. Diamond pins are river gauges. Hollow grey rings are crossings RiverReady knows about but has no flood level for, so it cannot tell you their condition. Tap any pin, or tap anywhere else to check the rivers around that spot.
Roads
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Watch
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Crosses water, no data
Rivers
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Saved places
Common places: home, school, work. Search for one the way you would on any map. These are kept on your device and are not sent anywhere.
Save two or more and you can add a journey between them, which RiverReady checks every time you open it.
Journeys you make
Home to school, home to work. RiverReady checks these every time you open it and tells you before you set off.
Your location
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Alerts
RiverReady checks the roads you've saved every fifteen minutes, matching how often the river gauges report, and tells you when one changes even with the app closed.
You are told about roads you have saved, and, if you switch it on below, roads within a set distance of you. Nothing else. RiverReady knows nothing at all about crossings it doesn't track, however close they are.
Close the app fully first, then tap this. If nothing arrives within a minute, alerts won't reach you in a storm either.
Your location is not sent anywhere. Your phone works out which roads are close and tells RiverReady only which roads to watch, never where you are.
Only alert me about
You'll only hear about a road when its status changes, not every time it's checked.
Report a road condition
Seen something RiverReady hasn't caught? Reports are marked as community reports, not confirmed conditions.
Your email is never shown. Reports appear as Anonymous. Your account is recorded privately so reports can be moderated, and for nothing else.
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River levels are U.S. Geological Survey sensor readings, updated roughly every 15 minutes. The height at which each road floods or closes comes from National Weather Service flood impact statements — every road in RiverReady exists because NWS published a sentence naming it. Rain forecasts are from the National Weather Service. Maps are OpenStreetMap data via OpenFreeMap.
Your email and saved roads are stored in your account. Your location and saved places stay on this device. RiverReady has no advertising and no third-party tracking.
To remove your account and everything stored with it, including saved roads and alert settings:
RiverReady watches river height at road crossings and tells you when the water is high enough to matter.
What it cannot do. It only knows about crossings where the National Weather Service publishes a flood level, and that is a small share of the roads that actually flood. A road it does not list is unknown, not clear.
It also knows nothing about fallen trees, ice, repairs, accidents or police closures, and small creeks can rise in twenty minutes from a storm upstream with no gauge nearby. Always look before you drive.
RiverReady is provided as-is, free, with no warranty. It reports river height at road crossings and is not an emergency service, a navigation service, or a substitute for your own judgement. It cannot see fallen trees, ice, repairs, accidents or police closures, and it knows nothing about crossings it doesn't list.
You must not rely on it as your only source when deciding whether to travel. Always look before you drive, and never drive into water. By using RiverReady you accept that the people who make it are not liable for decisions you make with it.
Contact
Questions, problems, or a road that looks wrong: riverready.appplication@gmail.com
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Everything works except alerts. Your saved roads are kept on this device only, and will be lost if you clear your browser. An account keeps them and lets RiverReady notify you when a road changes.
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River levels come from U.S. Geological Survey sensors, updated every 15 minutes. Road flood levels come from National Weather Service impact statements where they exist. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Conditions change fast — always look before you drive.