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Current Level
0.220 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.222 mASD
24h Min
0.220 mASD
Typical Range
0.24 - 1.16
mASD
Highest Recorded
3.25 mASD
EA official record
3.11 in our data (since Jun 1972)
Current level is 7% of this
🚽Sewage overflows nearby
Recent Water Levels
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Prediction V2
Prediction Eris
Nimbus beta
Experimental model fusing soil moisture, river flow, groundwater and catchment
character. Shown with its calibrated 10–90% confidence band. Under evaluation —
not yet promoted, so treat as a second opinion.
River Flow
90 days
Daily mean discharge (m³/s) with the daily min–max band, from the EA Hydrology API. Flow is the volume of water passing the gauge — often a more direct flood signal than level.
Long Term
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Consecutive rainy days0 → 10+
Days Above Normal
This year vs 5-year monthly range
Recent Readings
Steady over 6h
24 Aug 00:30▼ -0.1 cm0.220 mASD
24 Aug 00:15▬ steady0.221 mASD
24 Aug 00:00▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 23:45▲ +0.1 cm0.221 mASD
23 Aug 23:30▼ -0.1 cm0.220 mASD
23 Aug 23:15▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 23:00▲ +0.1 cm0.221 mASD
23 Aug 22:45▼ -0.1 cm0.220 mASD
23 Aug 21:30▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 21:15▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 21:00▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 20:45▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 20:30▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 20:15▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 20:00▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 19:45▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 19:30▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 19:15▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 19:00▬ steady0.221 mASD
23 Aug 18:450.221 mASD
Rainfall & Weather
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2011 for the 16 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 0.4 km away).
Warnings apply to a whole flood area, not necessarily this exact spot. Years before 2006 aren't covered by the EA's historic record.
See also the Eathorpe flood history.
Geographic coordinates may reflect the access point for the gauge, and not the precise location in the watercourse that it is taking readings from.
Catchment Character
🌊 FlashyRain runs off fast — levels rise and fall sharply, often within hours of heavy rain.
Your catchment is all the land that drains rainfall into the river above this gauge. Its character — how
steep, wet, wooded, urban or chalky that land is — decides how fast rain here turns into a rising river. A steep, bare or clay
catchment is “flashy” (rises and falls quickly, floods easily); a flat, chalk or well-wooded one is
slow and steady. The tiles below put numbers to that; the flow-duration curve reads left-to-right
from the river’s typical high flows (Q5) down to its low flows (Q95) — a steep curve means a flashy river.
The physical character of the land that drains to this gauge, and how it shapes its flood response — from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).
Baseflow Index
0.28
flashy — rain runs off fast
Avg Annual Rainfall
658 mm/yr
1991–2020 · -1% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
1.4%
largely rural
Highest Recorded Flow
79.14 m³/s
21 Jul 2007
Flow-Duration Curve
Daily flow (m³/s) exceeded each % of the time — a steep curve is flashy, a flat one is steady. Q5 high · Q50 median · Q95 low.
The flows here are dominated by the Draycote Reservoir and is an important flow forecasting site.
More detail
The catchment
Low relief catchment. Mercia Mudstone in the lower catchment is overlain by river terraces, otherwise Lower Lias clays and silts. The north has abundant glacial sands and gravels. Wholly rural apart from south Rugby. Mixed farming.
The station
Side-contracted central low flow flume, flanked by broad-crested weirs in a straight reach.
How it measures flow
Exceeds bankfull but not bypassed. Rated by model test and current meter. ADCP remote controlled gaugings typically carried out a few metres upstream of the flume.
Flow regime
Flashy response. Flow regime dominated by the operation of Draycote Reservoir via the Eathorpe intake approx. 100m u/s - abstraction and support. Important flow forecasting site.
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Gauging structure
Operating since
1968
Station datum
56.6 mAOD
Flow record
1987–2024 · 37 yrs · 100% complete
Hydrometric area
54
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Leam at Eathorpe flooding today?
The current level is 0.22m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Eathorpe?
Based on the most recent readings, the level is currently steady. The chart above shows the last 7 days of measurements, updated roughly every 15 minutes.
What is a normal level for the River Leam at Eathorpe?
The typical range at this station is 0.24m to 1.16m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.16m are higher than usually seen and may indicate a flood risk.
How often is this river level data updated?
Readings are taken by the Environment Agency gauge roughly every 15 minutes and FloodRadar refreshes its data continuously, so the level shown is normally less than an hour old.
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📮 Flood risk by postcode near this gauge
Postcodes within 5 km with properties in the Environment Agency’s rivers-and-sea flood-risk bands:
