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Tregony

Fal
Fal and St Austell Streams catchment • Tregony • Cornwall • ID: 48108 • Level
(29m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 133 views

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Current Level
0.181 m
▼ Falling (-2cm/hr)
24h Max
0.235 m
24h Min
0.179 m
Typical Range
0.25 - 1.50
m
Highest Recorded
2.30 m
EA official record
2.22 in our data (since Jun 1978)
Current level is 8% of this
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Falling · -4 cm over 6h
24 Aug 00:00 ▼ -0.4 cm 0.181 m
23 Aug 23:45 ▼ -0.5 cm 0.185 m
23 Aug 23:30 ▼ -0.6 cm 0.190 m
23 Aug 23:15 ▼ -0.6 cm 0.196 m
23 Aug 23:00 ▼ -1.0 cm 0.202 m
23 Aug 22:30 ▼ -0.3 cm 0.212 m
23 Aug 21:30 ▬ steady 0.215 m
23 Aug 21:15 ▬ steady 0.215 m
23 Aug 21:00 ▬ steady 0.215 m
23 Aug 20:45 ▬ steady 0.215 m
23 Aug 20:30 ▬ steady 0.215 m
23 Aug 20:15 ▬ steady 0.215 m
23 Aug 20:00 ▬ steady 0.215 m
23 Aug 19:45 ▬ steady 0.215 m
23 Aug 19:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.215 m
23 Aug 19:15 ▬ steady 0.216 m
23 Aug 19:00 ▬ steady 0.216 m
23 Aug 18:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.216 m
23 Aug 18:30 ▬ steady 0.217 m
23 Aug 18:15 0.217 m

Rainfall & Weather

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2010 for the 7 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 0.1 km away).

19flood warnings 52flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 20 Dec 2025Mevagissey Stream at Mevagissey

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2026 0 3
2025 1 6
2024 0 5
2023 1 3
2021 0 1
2020 2 4
2019 0 2
2018 2 1
2016 1 5
2015 0 2
2014 7 6
2013 1 3
2012 4 6
2011 0 4
2010 0 1

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 Tregony flood history.

Nearby Stations

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Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Tregony
  • Watercourse: River Fal
  • Nearest Town: Tregony
  • County: Cornwall
  • Nearest reservoir: Blackpool Pit (11.8 km) · 79.5% full (as of 31 May 2026)
  • Coordinates: 50°15'58"N 4°55'7"W (50.266031, -4.918599)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 8 Jun 1978
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
  • Station Reference: 48108
  • EA Gauge ID: 48108-level-stage-i-15_min-m
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: m
  • Typical rise rate: 4 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Fal and St Austell Streams
  • Typical Range: 0.252 – 1.500 m
  • Drainage Area: 87 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Available (m³/s) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.19 m (EA at 23 Aug 23:45)
  • 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
0.55
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,278 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +4% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
1.7%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
11.05 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
18.60 m³/s
22 Dec 2012
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 2.046.041.400.4505% (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 15%Grassland 49%Arable 13%Heath/scrub 4%Urban 6%Other 14%
Woodland 10% → 15% since 1990

Flow affected by: effluent returns, industrial / agricultural abstraction.

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

Velocity area station augmented by a low flow side-contracted flume. Some data unreliable due to siltation of flume an inlet pipes.

More detail

The catchment

Responsive catchment of moderate to low relief, draining Devonian slates, shales and grits. Upper reaches plateau-like alluvial flats. Traverses the kaolinised St Austell Granite. Land use is low grade agriculture and grazing, some woodland. No major changes to catchment.

The station

Originally a velocity-area station in a formalised trapezoidal channel built in 1961; augmented by a low flow, side-contracted flume 2.8m wide in 08/1967.

How it measures flow

Full range station with sound high flow measurement. Pre-digital rating missing and under investigation. One peak flow rating applied across period of record.

Flow regime

Moderate modification to flows owing to industrial abstractions and returns.

The flow record

Data available from 06/1978, earlier data unreliable due to silting of inlet pipes. Data between 1967 and 1978 is unreliable due to siltation of the flume. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in September 2020 (WINFAP Files v9) and in August 2025 (WINFAP Files v14).

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
Gauging structure
Operating since
1977
Station datum
6.9 mAOD
Flow record
1978–2024 · 46 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1961
Hydrometric area
48
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Fal at Tregony flooding today?

The current level is 0.18m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Tregony?

Based on the most recent readings, the level is currently falling. The chart above shows the last 7 days of measurements, updated roughly every 15 minutes.

Why is the level slowly falling?

When little or no rain has fallen for a while, a river level gradually drops as the water stored in the ground and soil drains away with nothing to replace it. This is called baseflow recession and is normal in dry spells. A gentle decline like this is expected and is not a sign of a problem — downstream gauges often recede a little faster than headwaters further upstream, and levels recover once rain returns.

What is a normal level for the River Fal at Tregony?

The typical range at this station is 0.25m to 1.50m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.50m 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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