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Middle River Aire catchment

River Aire from Stockbridge to Castleford, including Bradford Beck, Oulton Beck and Kippax Beck

Flood alert area River Aire, Bradford Beck Bradford, Leeds, North Yorkshire, Wakefield Yorkshire

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Nearby Monitoring Stations

Apperley Bridge in this area

River Aire • 3.4 km (upstream)

Easing · normal — Easing — down from 0.26 at 09:30, now 0.25

Kirkstall Abbey on the boundary

River Aire • Kirkstall • 3.9 km (downstream)

Steady · normal

Armley in this area

River Aire • Leeds • 6.2 km (downstream)

Easing · normal — Easing — down from 0.73 at 08:00, now 0.70

Shipley in this area

Bradford Beck • 7.2 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

Saltaire in this area

River Aire • Saltaire • 8.5 km (upstream)

Easing · normal — Easing — down from 0.49 at 08:30, now 0.48

Bradford Greenside in this area

Bradford Beck • Bradford Greenside • 8.9 km (upstream)

Steady · below normal

Leeds Crown Point in this area

River Aire • Leeds • 8.9 km (downstream)

Steady · normal

Leeds Crown Point Flood Alleviation Scheme in this area

River Aire • Leeds Crown Point Weir • 9.0 km (downstream)

structure gauge

Cottingley Bridge in this area

River Aire • Cottingley • 11.0 km (upstream)

Easing · normal — Easing — down from 0.70 at 08:30, now 0.66

Leeds Knostrop Weir Flood Alleviation Scheme in this area

River Aire • Leeds Knostrop Weir • 11.1 km (downstream)

structure gauge

Flood Event History (50)

11 Feb 2026 at 8:23pm Flood Alert

14 Dec 2025 at 1:11pm Flood Alert

8 Dec 2025 at 6:34pm Flood Alert

1 Dec 2025 at 8:37pm Flood Alert

14 Jan 2025 at 6:36am Flood Alert

6 Jan 2025 at 7:46am Flood Alert

31 Dec 2024 at 6:54pm Flood Alert

5 Dec 2024 at 8:03pm Flood Alert

23 Nov 2024 at 7:27pm Flood Alert

22 Nov 2024 at 4:03pm Flood Alert

22 May 2024 at 4:15pm Flood Alert

4 Apr 2024 at 7:55pm Flood Alert

29 Jan 2024 at 5:30pm Flood Alert

23 Jan 2024 at 5:46pm Flood Alert

21 Jan 2024 at 1:13pm Flood Alert

31 Dec 2023 at 8:08pm Flood Alert

28 Dec 2023 at 5:16pm Flood Alert

27 Dec 2023 at 10:30am Flood Alert

9 Dec 2023 at 5:51pm Flood Alert

13 Nov 2023 at 8:46pm Flood Alert

20 Oct 2023 at 8:38pm Flood Alert

20 Oct 2023 at 7:38am Flood Alert

11 Jan 2023 at 4:31pm Flood Alert

31 Dec 2022 at 7:42pm Flood Alert

17 Nov 2022 at 5:10pm Flood Alert

19 Feb 2022 at 8:03pm Flood Alert

1 Nov 2021 at 10:20am Flood Alert

6 Feb 2021 at 10:33am Flood Alert

22 Jan 2021 at 12:10pm Flood Alert

18 Jan 2021 at 4:58pm Flood Alert

16 Jan 2021 at 3:07pm Flood Alert

27 Dec 2020 at 8:15am Flood Alert

1 Nov 2020 at 8:39pm Flood Alert

21 Feb 2020 at 1:34pm Flood Alert

15 Feb 2020 at 12:40pm Flood Alert

8 Feb 2020 at 7:54pm Flood Alert

7 Nov 2019 at 10:21am Flood Alert

26 Oct 2019 at 6:26am Flood Alert

5 Oct 2019 at 8:23pm Flood Alert

30 Sep 2019 at 9:08pm Flood Alert

28 Sep 2019 at 5:57pm Flood Alert

16 Mar 2019 at 4:55pm Flood Alert

14 Mar 2019 at 4:30pm Flood Alert

3 Apr 2018 at 12:02am Flood Alert

2 Apr 2018 at 10:07pm Flood Alert

18 Jan 2018 at 6:59am Flood Alert

21 Oct 2017 at 9:03pm Flood Alert

22 Mar 2017 at 6:22pm Flood Alert

22 Nov 2016 at 8:50am Flood Alert

17 Nov 2016 at 7:22pm Flood Alert

Official sources for this area

This area on the Environment Agency’s flood service →
Floodline quick dial: 137123 — call 0345 988 1188 and give that code for a recorded update on this area.
Area code: 123WAF961

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.