Aire and Calder catchment
• Catcliffe Drain • West Yorkshire • ID: F1608 • Level
(38m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 129 views
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Current Level
0.207 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.214 m
24h Min
0.207 m
Typical Range
0.21 - 1.75
m
Highest Recorded
3.43 m
1 May 2018
Since May 2000
Current level is 6% 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
24 Aug 00:30▬ steady0.207 m
24 Aug 00:15▬ steady0.207 m
24 Aug 00:00▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 23:45▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 23:30▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 23:15▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 23:00▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 22:45▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 21:30▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 21:15▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 21:00▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 20:45▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 20:30▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 20:15▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 20:00▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 19:45▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 19:30▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 19:15▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 19:00▬ steady0.207 m
23 Aug 18:450.207 m
Rainfall & Weather
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2012 for the 19 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 0.1 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 Catcliffe Drain 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
0.38
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,185 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +6% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
3.6%
partly urbanised
Median Annual Flood
101 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
228 m³/s
26 Dec 2015
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.
Velocity area station upstream of long, broad-crested mill weir.
More detail
The catchment
Catchment draining the east side of the Pennines. Geology comprises predominantly Carboniferous Limestone in the headwaters down to Skipton with Millstone Grit in the lower catchment. Largely rural headwaters, more urban and industrial development in the lower catchment. Some influence from reservoirs and flood attenuation washlands.
The station
Velocity area station, with an approximately 150m wide broad crested mill weir set at a shallow angle to river flow just downstream. A H-ADVP velocity meter was also operated at the site from 2009 to 2017 with a velocity index rating. Station added to peak flows dataset in September 2019 (WINFAP Files v8).
How it measures flow
Relatively straight approach channel to the level gauge located on the right bank. However the width and shallow angle of the weir are likely to lead to a variation in head between the right (upstream) and left (downstream) sides of the structure and it is relatively insensitive to changes in flow. Modular range is uncertain but rated by check gaugings up to QMED and extrapolated above. A single rating curve applies to period of record and gives a good fit to the gaugings.
Flow regime
Fairly natural regime, rural headwaters but with increasing urbanisation in the lower valley (including Skipton, Crosshills, Keighley) and several small reservoirs in the catchment. Washlands with raised embankments around Skipton and Cononley provide attenuation to some flood peaks.
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Velocity–area
Operating since
2000
Flow record
2000–2024 · 24 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 2000
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 Aire at Bingley flooding today?
The current level is 0.21m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Bingley?
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 Aire at Bingley?
The typical range at this station is 0.21m to 1.75m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.75m 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:
16 May 2002 Downstream view of channel upstream of gauging station, station is just out of sight behind the bridge abutment
Upstream view of sensors and gauge board on right bank
Instrument kiosk
View upstream towards Bingley Weir
Bingley gaugeboards looking upstream
