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Current Level
0.054 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.065 mASD
24h Min
0.031 mASD
Typical Range
0.07 - 1.00
mASD
Highest Recorded
2.65 mASD
EA official record
2.64 in our data (since Feb 2000)
Current level is 2% 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
Falling · -0.5 cm over 6h
23 Aug 23:00▼ -0.2 cm0.054 mASD
23 Aug 22:45▼ -0.3 cm0.056 mASD
23 Aug 21:30▼ -0.2 cm0.059 mASD
23 Aug 21:15▲ +0.1 cm0.061 mASD
23 Aug 21:00▲ +0.3 cm0.060 mASD
23 Aug 20:45▲ +0.5 cm0.057 mASD
23 Aug 20:30▲ +0.3 cm0.052 mASD
23 Aug 20:15▼ -0.1 cm0.049 mASD
23 Aug 20:00▼ -0.3 cm0.050 mASD
23 Aug 19:45▼ -0.2 cm0.053 mASD
23 Aug 19:30▼ -0.2 cm0.055 mASD
23 Aug 19:15▲ +0.1 cm0.057 mASD
23 Aug 19:00▲ +0.2 cm0.056 mASD
23 Aug 18:45▲ +0.1 cm0.054 mASD
23 Aug 18:30▼ -0.1 cm0.053 mASD
23 Aug 18:15▬ steady0.054 mASD
23 Aug 18:00▼ -0.2 cm0.054 mASD
23 Aug 17:45▼ -0.1 cm0.056 mASD
23 Aug 17:30▼ -0.2 cm0.057 mASD
23 Aug 17:150.059 mASD
Rainfall & Weather
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2012 for the 9 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 0.5 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 Pinxton 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
🌊 Urban & flashyHeavily built-up — rain runs off hard surfaces fast, so levels can spike 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
0.55
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
787 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +5% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
18%
heavily urbanised
Highest Recorded Flow
50.40 m³/s
20 Oct 2023
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.
Land Cover (2023)
Woodland 7%Grassland 38%Arable 17%Urban 37%
Arable 38% → 17% since 1990
About this gauge
Informal weir rated section in the upper reaches of the Erewash.
More detail
The catchment
Semi-urbanised catchment, draining agricultural land and coal mines.
The station
Gauge in the upper reaches of the Erewash.
The flow record
Some missing data between 2001 and 2002. Localised flooding prevents access for gaugings during recent extreme events, with extreme high flows beyond the limit of the rating curve. Treat with caution. Low flow section of rating improved in 2023 and historic flow data reprocessed.
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Velocity–area
Operating since
2000
Station datum
80.8 mAOD
Flow record
2000–2024 · 24 yrs · 99% 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 River Erewash at Pinxton flooding today?
The current level is 0.05m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Pinxton?
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 Erewash at Pinxton?
The typical range at this station is 0.07m to 1.00m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.00m 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:
