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…