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Current Level
0.105 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.116 mASD
24h Min
0.105 mASD
Typical Range
0.15 - 1.20
mASD
Highest Recorded
1.30 mASD
6 Nov 2000
Since Nov 1981
Current level is 8% 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.
Long Term
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Consecutive rainy days0 → 10+
Days Above Normal
This year vs 5-year monthly range
Recent Readings
Falling · -1 cm over 6h
23 Aug 23:45▼ -0.1 cm0.105 mASD
23 Aug 23:30▬ steady0.106 mASD
23 Aug 23:15▼ -0.1 cm0.106 mASD
23 Aug 23:00▬ steady0.107 mASD
23 Aug 22:45▼ -0.3 cm0.107 mASD
23 Aug 21:30▼ -0.1 cm0.110 mASD
23 Aug 21:15▬ steady0.111 mASD
23 Aug 21:00▼ -0.1 cm0.111 mASD
23 Aug 20:45▼ -0.1 cm0.112 mASD
23 Aug 20:30▼ -0.1 cm0.113 mASD
23 Aug 20:15▬ steady0.114 mASD
23 Aug 20:00▼ -0.1 cm0.114 mASD
23 Aug 19:45▬ steady0.115 mASD
23 Aug 19:30▬ steady0.115 mASD
23 Aug 19:15▼ -0.1 cm0.115 mASD
23 Aug 19:00▬ steady0.116 mASD
23 Aug 18:45▬ steady0.116 mASD
23 Aug 18:30▬ steady0.116 mASD
23 Aug 18:15▬ steady0.116 mASD
23 Aug 18:000.116 mASD
Rainfall & Weather
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2006 for the 7 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 5.3 km away).
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
🌊 Mixed responseA balance of quick runoff and slower groundwater baseflow.
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
0.58
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
826 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +5% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.9%
largely rural
Highest Recorded Flow
10.90 m³/s
26 Oct 2019
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.
A crump profile Flat V weir, which does suffer from some interference from groundwater pumping and sewage effluent.
More detail
The catchment
Low relief, agricultural catchment, draining Sherwood S'st in the North-east headwaters, Mercia Mudstone elsewhere. Overlain by river terrace gravels and alluvium in valleys.
The station
Crump profile Flat V weir, 5m wide, 1:10 cross-slopes, with crest tapping. In 2016 the site has undergone silt clearance and eal pass and pre-barrage fish pass were installed.
How it measures flow
Cableway is no longer in use - ADCP remote controlled gaugings carried out within measurement section and across adjacent floodplain on left bank during out of bank flows. In-channel weed growth is managed during the Summer months. Upstream railway bridge can cause skewed flow affecting gaugings across the flow range at times. Upstream right bank vegetation was cleared in 2024 to improve flow conditions.
Flow regime
Backs up from d/s bridge. Interference from gw pumping and sewage effluent, net effect of reduction in runoff. Baseflow maintained by glacial valley gravel.
The flow record
In 2016 during the conducted works, a gauge was installed at a nearby location, thus there are continuous measurements in the database.
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Gauging structure
Operating since
1981
Station datum
81.1 mAOD
Flow record
1981–2024 · 43 yrs · 100% complete
Hydrometric area
28
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the Meece Brook at Shallowford flooding today?
The current level is 0.11m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Shallowford?
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.
Why is the level slowly falling?
When little or no rain has fallen for a while, a river level gradually drops as the water stored in the ground and soil drains away with nothing to replace it. This is called baseflow recession and is normal in dry spells. A gentle decline like this is expected and is not a sign of a problem — downstream gauges often recede a little faster than headwaters further upstream, and levels recover once rain returns.
What is a normal level for the Meece Brook at Shallowford?
The typical range at this station is 0.15m to 1.20m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.20m 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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