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Current Level
0.853 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.858 m
24h Min
0.851 m
Typical Range
0.75 - 2.40
m
Highest Recorded
3.03 m
24 Jan 2026
Since Apr 2015
Current level is 28% 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
23 Aug 23:00▲ +0.1 cm0.853 m
23 Aug 22:45▼ -0.1 cm0.852 m
23 Aug 21:30▬ steady0.853 m
23 Aug 21:15▬ steady0.853 m
23 Aug 21:00▬ steady0.853 m
23 Aug 20:45▬ steady0.853 m
23 Aug 20:30▬ steady0.853 m
23 Aug 20:15▬ steady0.853 m
23 Aug 20:00▬ steady0.853 m
23 Aug 19:45▬ steady0.853 m
23 Aug 19:30▼ -0.1 cm0.853 m
23 Aug 19:15▲ +0.2 cm0.854 m
23 Aug 19:00▬ steady0.852 m
23 Aug 18:45▼ -0.2 cm0.852 m
23 Aug 18:30▲ +0.1 cm0.854 m
23 Aug 18:15▼ -0.1 cm0.853 m
23 Aug 18:00▬ steady0.854 m
23 Aug 17:45▬ steady0.854 m
23 Aug 17:30▬ steady0.854 m
23 Aug 17:150.854 m
Rainfall & Weather
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2007 for the 12 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 Bodmin 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
🌊 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
0.54
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,467 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +2% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
1.0%
largely rural
Highest Recorded Flow
34.36 m³/s
18 Dec 2020
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.
8 cross path ultrasonic gauge full range flow site.
More detail
The catchment
The upper catchment drains Devonian slates (variously affected by the granite) and the Bodmin Moor Granite. Lower catchment drains Devonian slates and grits. Land use is moorland and low grade agriculture and grazing. No major changes in catchment.
The station
Cross path ultrasonic gauge attached to 15m high bridge abutments in a deep section of river, also held up by a stable shoal downstream. A replacement for Denby (49001) 2.5 miles downstream which closed in March 2019.
How it measures flow
A full range site opened in 2015. High flows should be mostly contained although bypassing is possible via a disused leat which flows through the embankment from the floodplain upstream. Low flow sensitivity is maintained by a stable shoal downstream. Flow data is currently derived from a rating developed from spot flow gaugings up to 2.241m/ 33.2 cumecs. The rating will be a back up data source when the flow record is direct from the ultrasonic. Paths can be impacted by aeration within the section at higher flows.
Flow regime
Crowdy Reservoir in the north-east of the catchment affects runoff. Runoff reduced by Public Water Supply abstraction. Sewage effluent returns from Bodmin.
The flow record
4 periods of missing data in 2016/7 related to equipment/ power failures during the station developmental phase. This data will be infilled in the near future using Denby as a donor site.
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Ultrasonic
Operating since
2015
Station datum
30.0 mAOD
Flow record
2015–2024 · 9 yrs · 95% complete
Hydrometric area
49
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Camel at Bodmin Dunmere flooding today?
The current level is 0.85m, which is within the typical range of 0.75 to 2.40m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Bodmin Dunmere?
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 Camel at Bodmin Dunmere?
The typical range at this station is 0.75m to 2.40m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 2.40m 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:
16 Nov 2018 Looking upstream to transducer section
16 Nov 2018 Looking down on measurement section from bridge
25 Nov 2015 Looking upstream at measurement section
17 Feb 2015 Downstream channel
