Don and Rother catchment
• Tinsley • South Yorkshire • ID: F0605 • Level
(34m ago) • 3 readings/hr • 139 views
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Current Level
0.327 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.328 m
24h Min
0.326 m
Typical Range
0.36 - 2.05
m
Highest Recorded
4.68 m
25 Jun 2007
Since Feb 1968
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
23 Aug 23:15▲ +0.1 cm0.327 m
23 Aug 23:00▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 22:45▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 21:30▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 21:15▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 21:00▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 20:45▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 20:30▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 20:15▼ -0.1 cm0.326 m
23 Aug 20:00▬ steady0.327 m
23 Aug 19:45▲ +0.1 cm0.327 m
23 Aug 19:30▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 19:15▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 19:00▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 18:45▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 18:30▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 18:15▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 18:00▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 17:45▬ steady0.326 m
23 Aug 17:300.326 m
Rainfall & Weather
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2011 for the 32 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 Tinsley 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
🌊 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
0.42
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,062 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +5% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
13%
partly urbanised
Median Annual Flood
88.57 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
185 m³/s
25 Jun 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.
Broad-crested, skewed, semi-circular masonry weir with long record. Heavily reservoired catchment draining the East Pennines.
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The catchment
Catchment draining the eastern flank of the Pennines, to Sheffield. Mixed geology including Upper Carboniferous Millstone Grit, Middle and Lower Coal Measures sandstones and shales with a generally easterly dip. Moorland headwaters used for rough grazing contrast with the heavily urbanised (up to a fifth of the catchment) lower catchment (now less industrial); mixed rural in mid-catchment. Ongoing increase in area of development during period of record.
The station
Broad-crested, skewed, semi-circular masonry weir (44.5m wide) with sloping upstream face. Upstream level recorder since 1921 originally poor due to limited range and position at foundry intake, now located on inside bend in river, upstream of the weir. Cableway installed 1961 located 100m d/s destroyed in 1989, new cableway installed u/s in November 1997. Hut and contents stolen, 1985, replaced 1986. Fish pass installed November 2012.
How it measures flow
Rarely bypassed or drowned. Current meter gauging previously from footbridge, downstream of weir. Rated by a current meter from a cableway. Revised rating applied in December 2014 back to November 2012 following fish pass construction. This rating alters the lower limb (below 0.52m stage) to compensate for the fish pass. Four peak flow ratings applied across period of record. Good fit to gaugings. In 1975 Flood Studies Report grade A2 to 2m and B above (overall grade A2). Current grade A1 to 2m and A2 above.
Flow regime
Fast responding catchment with a large urban component near to the outlet. Heavily reservoired with estimated 40% of catchment draining through around 23 reservoirs. Variation in Don Valley reservoir content has very significant effect on overall percentage runoff from the catchment in flood. Addition of water from borehole to Scout Dyke reservoir group, intermittent discharge from South Yorkshire Navigation and sewage treatment effluent discharge. Compensation forms a large part of baseflow. Significant net loss of water from the catchment with abstraction to Yorkshire Grid.
The flow record
Data is available from 21/11/1956. Flows from 1982 reprocessed in 2002 and 2014. Bypassed in June 2007 event. June 2007 peak flow is estimated 259 cumecs and stage 4.68m (wrack survey). Flows reprocessed from 2/11/2012 in 2015 after new rating developed for fish pass resulting in a slightly lower flow estimate. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in October 2018 (WINFAP Files v7).
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Gauging structure
Operating since
1965
Station datum
30.2 mAOD
Flow record
1965–2024 · 59 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1956
Hydrometric area
27
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Don at Hadfields flooding today?
The current level is 0.33m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Hadfields?
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 Don at Hadfields?
The typical range at this station is 0.36m to 2.05m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 2.05m 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:
6 Nov 2012 Weir and fish pass from left bank
6 Nov 2012 Looking upstream to weir and fish pass, from left bank
6 Nov 2012 Looking at weir and fish pass from right bank
6 Nov 2012 Floating debris boom at fish pass entrance
