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Northumbrian Water · 👁 53 views

98.5%
full
Last reported 28 Dec 2025
Water companyNorthumbrian Water
Reservoir typeImpounding
Primary useWater resources
Completed1903
Location55.2353, -1.9368
Full capacity3,280 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)
202570.7%
202496.1%
2023100.0%
202250.4%

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

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Nearby river gauges

Nunnykirk River Font 2.8 km
Hartburn River Hartburn 7.7 km
Rothbury River Coquet 8.5 km
Middleton Bridge River Wansbeck 9.4 km
Otterburn Mill River Rede 15.2 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).