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Lower River Don catchment

River Don from Hexthorpe to Stainforth, including Swaith Dike and North Swaith Dike in Bentley

Flood alert area River Don Doncaster Yorkshire

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Nearby Monitoring Stations

Kirk Bramwith in this area

River Don • Kirk Bramwith • 2.6 km (downstream)

Doncaster in this area

River Don • Bentley • 6.5 km (downstream)

Falling · normal

River Don • Fishlake • 7.7 km (downstream)

River Don • Sprotbrough • 10.3 km (downstream)

Falling · normal

Mexborough Lock

River Don • Mexborough • 13.8 km (downstream)

structure gauge

Kilnhurst Lower

River Don • Kilnhurst Lower • 17.9 km (upstream)

structure gauge

Rotherham Forge Island

River Don • Rotherham • 24.3 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

River Don • Rotherham • 24.9 km (upstream)

Rising slightly · normal — Up 0.02 m since 08:15, rising slightly

River Don • Tinsley • 28.3 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

Ea Beck • Thorpe In Balne • 1.1 km

structure gauge

Flood Event History (50)

6 Feb 2026 at 3:41pm Flood Alert

27 Jan 2026 at 4:20pm Flood Alert

23 Jan 2026 at 8:34am Flood Alert

14 Nov 2025 at 4:56pm Flood Alert

6 Jan 2025 at 6:35am Flood Alert

1 Jan 2025 at 4:36pm Flood Alert

24 Nov 2024 at 4:13pm Flood Alert

30 Sep 2024 at 9:10pm Flood Alert

10 Feb 2024 at 5:09pm Flood Alert

10 Feb 2024 at 10:03am Flood Alert

9 Feb 2024 at 8:33pm Flood Alert

9 Feb 2024 at 1:37pm Flood Alert

1 Jan 2024 at 8:51pm Flood Alert

6 Dec 2023 at 8:56pm Flood Alert

5 Dec 2023 at 9:22am Flood Alert

2 Nov 2023 at 3:43pm Flood Alert

20 Oct 2023 at 3:20pm Flood Alert

20 Oct 2023 at 2:49pm Flood Alert

17 Nov 2022 at 6:42pm Flood Alert

18 Feb 2022 at 5:20pm Flood Alert

6 Feb 2021 at 7:14pm Flood Alert

28 Jan 2021 at 6:11pm Flood Alert

19 Jan 2021 at 1:19pm Flood Alert

16 Jan 2021 at 8:50pm Flood Alert

14 Jan 2021 at 2:42pm Flood Alert

24 Dec 2020 at 10:37am Flood Alert

29 Feb 2020 at 12:27pm Flood Alert

23 Feb 2020 at 11:37am Flood Alert

15 Feb 2020 at 3:07pm Flood Alert

10 Feb 2020 at 9:59am Flood Alert

9 Feb 2020 at 6:17pm Flood Alert

7 Nov 2019 at 2:06pm Flood Alert

26 Oct 2019 at 7:10am Flood Alert

29 Sep 2019 at 3:55pm Flood Alert

16 Mar 2019 at 8:56pm Flood Alert

2 Apr 2018 at 8:55pm Flood Alert

31 Mar 2018 at 1:24pm Flood Alert

13 Mar 2018 at 8:21am Flood Alert

12 Mar 2018 at 9:41pm Flood Alert

12 Mar 2018 at 5:59pm Flood Alert

18 Jan 2018 at 4:53pm Flood Alert

22 Nov 2016 at 9:18am Flood Alert

28 Mar 2016 at 8:51pm Flood Alert

9 Mar 2016 at 5:11pm Flood Alert

9 Feb 2016 at 7:14am Flood Alert

3 Jan 2016 at 5:38pm Flood Alert

14 Nov 2015 at 12:42pm Flood Alert

27 Jan 2013 at 2:06pm Flood Alert

20 Dec 2012 at 1:51pm Flood Alert

25 Nov 2012 at 7:54am Flood Alert

Related Flood Areas

Official sources for this area

This area on the Environment Agency’s flood service →
Floodline quick dial: 138218 — call 0345 988 1188 and give that code for a recorded update on this area.
Area code: 123WAF972

Live warnings and area boundaries are the Environment Agency’s and the EA is the authority on them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This area in the EA’s own data.