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Northumbrian Water · 👁 40 views

96.7%
full
Last reported 28 Dec 2025
Water companyNorthumbrian Water
Reservoir typeImpounding
Primary useWater resources
Completed1970
Location54.6681, -2.3083
Full capacity40,915 Ml
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Where it is

Approximate location. Satellite imagery © Esri.

Level history

This time of year, in past years

Year% full (nearest reading)
202556.9%
2024100.0%
202399.7%
202266.2%

Nearest reading within 10 days either side of today's date, for each year on record.

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Nearby river gauges

Harwood Harwood Beck 4.8 km
Moorhouse Trout Beck 5.4 km
Wearhead Killhope Burn 10.9 km
Appleby River Eden 15.3 km
Middleton River Tees 15.6 km
Where this comes from. Reservoir data © the UK water companies, from their published reservoir-level reports and the Stream water-industry open data portal (CC BY 4.0). Thames Water London history via the London Datastore (Open Government Licence v2). Figures are exactly as published by Northumbrian Water — reporting day and rounding vary. Levels older than 21 days are marked "last reported" rather than treated as current.
Reservoir facts. Reservoir facts (coordinates, capacity, type, purpose, construction date and downstream gauge) from the UK Reservoir Inventory. Contains data supplied by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Durant & Counsell, 2018, Open Government Licence v3.0).