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Current Level
0.114 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.117 mASD
24h Min
0.085 mASD
Typical Range
0.13 - 0.82
mASD
Highest Recorded
1.44 mASD
5 Jan 2017
Since Oct 1986
Current level is 8% 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
Rising · +2 cm over 6h
24 Aug 00:00▬ steady0.114 mASD
23 Aug 23:45▲ +0.1 cm0.114 mASD
23 Aug 23:30▲ +0.1 cm0.113 mASD
23 Aug 23:15▬ steady0.112 mASD
23 Aug 23:00▲ +0.1 cm0.112 mASD
23 Aug 22:45▲ +0.3 cm0.111 mASD
23 Aug 21:30▲ +0.1 cm0.108 mASD
23 Aug 21:15▲ +0.1 cm0.107 mASD
23 Aug 21:00▲ +0.1 cm0.106 mASD
23 Aug 20:45▲ +0.2 cm0.105 mASD
23 Aug 20:30▲ +0.1 cm0.103 mASD
23 Aug 20:15▬ steady0.102 mASD
23 Aug 20:00▲ +0.1 cm0.101 mASD
23 Aug 19:45▲ +0.3 cm0.100 mASD
23 Aug 19:30▬ steady0.097 mASD
23 Aug 19:15▲ +0.1 cm0.097 mASD
23 Aug 19:00▲ +0.3 cm0.096 mASD
23 Aug 18:45▬ steady0.093 mASD
23 Aug 18:30▲ +0.3 cm0.093 mASD
23 Aug 18:150.090 mASD
Rainfall & Weather
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2011 for the 8 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.1 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 Binfield 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
🌊 Urban & flashyHeavily built-up — rain runs off hard surfaces fast, so levels can spike within hours of heavy rain.
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
0.36
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
682 mm/yr
1991–2020 · -1% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
24%
heavily urbanised
Median Annual Flood
7.56 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
9.50 m³/s
20 Jul 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.
The station was established to assess the effect on flow due to the growth of Bracknell, although the structure (previously existing) was not ideal for this.
More detail
The catchment
An impermeable catchment (London Clay). Rural headwaters, including considerable woodland, but major new town development (Bracknell) built upstream since late 1940s. Downstream the land use within the catchment is almost a third urban overall (with a substantial increase over the POR).
The station
Broad-crested weir (13.7m wide) plus adjustable low flow notch (crest 1.22m wide), that was added in 1968, at outfall from an ornamental lake.
How it measures flow
Possibly some flow under main weir and leakage at the notch (adjustable weir). Probably unlikely to drown as there is a large drop over weir. One rating applied across the period of record; tends to underestimate flows in the AMAX range. This was derived using broad-crested weir theory, with flows treated as sum of two broad-crested weirs.
Flow regime
Hydrograph shows mixed rural/urban response - including the effect of balancing ponds. Runoff increased by effluent returns and reduced by industrial/agricultural abstraction. Significant and increasing effluent component during periods of low flow (primarily from Ascot STW - this represents a net import of water).
The flow record
Early flow data (prior to installation of the low flow notch) was less precise. 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
1957
Station datum
45.6 mAOD
Flow record
1957–2024 · 67 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1957
Hydrometric area
39
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the The Cut at Binfield flooding today?
The current level is 0.11m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Binfield?
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 The Cut at Binfield?
The typical range at this station is 0.13m to 0.82m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.82m 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:
