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Current Level
0.016 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.019 m
24h Min
0.016 m
Typical Range
0.02 - 0.75
m
Highest Recorded
1.41 m
20 Oct 2023
Since Oct 1984
Current level is 1% 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.
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
🌊 Fairly flashyResponds fairly quickly to rain, with moderate baseflow between events.
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
0.40
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
640 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +5% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.5%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
3.92 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
9.02 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 2%Grassland 16%Arable 79%Urban 3%
Arable 90% → 79% since 1990
Photos
Gauging-station photographs from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).
'Essex' profile (modified Flat V Crump weir). No spillway.
How it measures flow
Modular limit of 0.66m theoretically derived; secondary instrument to record non-modular flows installed in 2003. Lack of gaugings at high flows. One rating applied across period of record.
Flow regime
Natural to within 10% at Q95.
The flow record
No POT data are presented for this station as they have no non-modular flow correction applied. AMAX data have been corrected, but in some cases can be below the daily flow as these are not corrected. Naturalised flows from 1969 to 1976, only minimal adjustments needed since. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in September 2020 (WINFAP Files v9).
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Gauging structure
Operating since
1968
Station datum
59.4 mAOD
Flow record
1968–2024 · 56 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1968
Hydrometric area
36
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Brett at Cockfield flooding today?
The current level is 0.02m, which is within the typical range of 0.02 to 0.75m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Cockfield?
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 Brett at Cockfield?
The typical range at this station is 0.02m to 0.75m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.75m 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:
