Is there any way of getting reasonably up-to-date data on English river
levels (specifically, as mentioned, the Severn) other than going via the
EA's premium-rate "Rivercall" phone line? What I'd really like would be
an equivalent of the service the Scottish Environment Protection Agency
provides free on its website:

http://sepa.org.uk/data/river_levels/data.htm

but I'd settle for much less: something along the lines of "At Worcester,
X metres above and rising" would do the trick! If it can't be free, I'd
consider a reasonably-priced (ie not using "institutional" pricing!)
subscription service along the lines of the radar ones.

All I've turned up in some increasingly frustrating Googling has been the
aforementioned Rivercall line and River Flow Data from the Centre for
Ecology & Hydrology, which is very interesting but would be no use for
what I want, up-to-date level data at least every 24 hours:

http://www.ceh.ac.uk/data/nrfa/river_flow_data.html

Am I asking for the moon here? If so, how come SEPA can do it?

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Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.