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Easby

Leven
Tees catchment • Easby • North Yorkshire • ID: F3808 • Level
(35m ago) • 3 readings/hr • 131 views

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Current Level
0.090 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.092 m
24h Min
0.090 m
Typical Range
0.11 - 0.70
m
Highest Recorded
1.03 m
30 Oct 2000
Since Jan 1982
Current level is 9% of this
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Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Steady over 6h
23 Aug 23:15 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 23:00 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 22:45 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 21:30 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 21:15 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 21:00 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 20:45 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 20:30 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 20:15 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 20:00 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 19:45 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 19:30 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 19:15 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 19:00 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 18:45 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 18:30 ▬ steady 0.090 m
23 Aug 18:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.090 m
23 Aug 18:00 ▬ steady 0.091 m
23 Aug 17:45 ▬ steady 0.091 m
23 Aug 17:30 0.091 m

Rainfall & Weather

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2010 for the 6 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 2.6 km away).

1flood warning 62flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 21 Nov 2016River Leven at lower Great Ayton

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2026 0 2
2025 0 5
2024 0 10
2023 0 5
2021 0 2
2020 0 4
2019 0 3
2017 0 3
2016 1 6
2015 0 4
2014 0 1
2013 0 8
2012 0 7
2010 0 2

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 Easby flood history.

Nearby Stations

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Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Easby
  • Watercourse: River Leven
  • Nearest Town: Easby
  • County: North Yorkshire
  • Coordinates: 54°28'13"N 1°5'56"W (54.470289, -1.098857)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 1 May 1971
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
  • Station Reference: F3808
  • EA Gauge ID: F3808-level-stage-i-15_min-m
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: m
  • Typical rise rate: 1 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Tees
  • Typical Range: 0.106 – 0.700 m
  • Drainage Area: 15 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Available (m³/s) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.09 m (EA at 23 Aug 23:15)
  • Flow Archive: National River Flow Archive ↗

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 response A 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
0.52
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
892 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +4% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.4%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
5.38 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
10.10 m³/s
7 Nov 2000
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.2070.5680.1320.0495% (high)% of days exceeded95% (low)
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 21%Grassland 43%Arable 8%Heath/scrub 28%
Grassland 38% → 43% since 1990

Photos

Gauging-station photographs from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).

Photos © NRFA / UKCEH & the measuring authority — shown at web resolution. Full gallery on the NRFA ↗

About this gauge

Flat-V Crump profile weir with mild steel crest. Station closed in 1996 but reopened for flood warning purposes in 2003.

More detail

The catchment

Steep natural catchment draining the northern margin of the Cleveland Hills, with predominantly rough pasture and woodland. Geology is Upper Lias rock (blue-grey clays and ironstones) overlain by Lower Oolite sandstone series, with sand, gravel and Boulder Clay in valleys. Grazing and arable land. No known catchment changes.

The station

Flat-V Crump profile weir (5m wide) with mild steel crest in rectangular concrete river section. Station closed 31/12/1996 but re-opened in February 2003 for flood warning. Stokesley (d/s) has been subject to significant flooding from the Leven in the past (the last being in 1976), and historic flood marks, recorded at the police station there, give some support for the high growth rate observed in the AMAX series.

How it measures flow

Fast approach could occasionally give super-critical flow. Flows well contained up to 1.13m and have never been recorded above bankfull. The maximum gauged flow is 2.55 cumecs, well below Qmed. Theoretical daily flow rating by Wallingford Hydraulics Research, checked at low flows by current meter. One peak flow rating applied across period of record.

Flow regime

No known artificial influences.

The flow record

Gap in record Jan 1997 to Feb 2003 due to station closure. Temporary gauge at Low Easby (Nov 1996 to Feb 2005) has some overlap with Easby record but not currently used to infill missing peaks. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in October 2018 (WINFAP Files v7).

Descriptions from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH). NRFA station record ↗

Gauge Details

How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).

Gauge type
Flat-V weir
Operating since
1971
Station datum
101.3 mAOD
Flow record
1971–2024 · 53 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1971
Hydrometric area
25
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Leven at Easby flooding today?

The current level is 0.09m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Easby?

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 Leven at Easby?

The typical range at this station is 0.11m to 0.70m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.70m 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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