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Current Level
0.043 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.054 m
24h Min
0.042 m
Typical Range
0.04 - 0.14
m
Highest Recorded
0.38 m
10 Feb 2014
Since Feb 1981
Current level is 11% 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
🌊 Groundwater-fedSlow and steady — fed largely by groundwater, so levels change gradually, not in sudden spikes.
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
0.89
groundwater-fed — slow & steady
Avg Annual Rainfall
817 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +11% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
1.5%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
0.816 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
1.47 m³/s
30 Nov 2012
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 6%Grassland 21%Arable 71%Urban 2%
Arable 79% → 71% since 1990
Flow affected by: groundwater abstraction.
Photos
Gauging-station photographs from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).
Crump weir in a permeable catchment. Flow regime strongly dependent on groundwater contribution.
More detail
The catchment
A mainly permeable (Corallian) catchment, with Jurassic Calcareous grits in the upper part of the catchment, Alluvium in the Vale of Pickering overlying Kimmeridge clay. Rural, predominantly arable. Surface and groundwater catchments may differ considerably due to a large groundwater component to the catchment. No known catchment changes.
The station
Formal Crump Weir, 5.5m wide, built over a drainage culvert. There is a concrete apron 3-4m u/s of the weir. A drain runs beneath the gauge, receiving drainage from low lying land adjacent to Brompton Beck.
How it measures flow
Full range and modular. No drowning due to a large (>3m) d/s drop to the Derwent. Single theoretical peak flow rating applied across period of record. Gauged to within 25% of AMAX1, all flow contained within wing walls.
Flow regime
Stable and sensibly natural regime, although groundwater abstraction may influence the regime. The flow is largely dependent on flow from two Corallian Limestone springs in Brompton, augmented in wet weather by land drainage inflow.
The flow record
Artificial drop in flow in July 2003; cause unknown but upstream damming or abstraction likely, investigation failed to identify the cause. Gap in data Aug-Oct 1988, cause unknown. Gap Jul-Aug 2002, suspect data was deleted. Short gap Jun 2003 due to instrument fault. 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
Crump weir
Operating since
1984
Station datum
9.0 mAOD
Flow record
1981–2024 · 43 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1981
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 Brompton Beck at Snainton Ings flooding today?
The current level is 0.04m, which is within the typical range of 0.04 to 0.14m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Snainton Ings?
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 Brompton Beck at Snainton Ings?
The typical range at this station is 0.04m to 0.14m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.14m 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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1986 Looking u/s from below weir
1986 Weir from R bank
1986 Weir looking d/s from R bank
1986
1986 Approach channel looking u/s
1986 Drain culverted under the weir
