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Trenear

Cober
West Cornwall catchment • Wendron • Cornwall • ID: 48126 • Level
(34m ago) • 2 readings/hr • 119 views

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Current Level
0.360 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.371 m
24h Min
0.360 m
Typical Range
0.35 - 1.00
m
Highest Recorded
1.32 m
EA official record
1.32 in our data (since Jan 1988)
Current level is 27% of this
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Falling · -0.4 cm over 7h
10 Oct 13:00 ▬ steady 0.360 m
10 Oct 12:30 ▬ steady 0.360 m
10 Oct 12:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.360 m
10 Oct 11:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.361 m
10 Oct 11:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.362 m
10 Oct 11:00 ▬ steady 0.363 m
10 Oct 10:30 ▬ steady 0.363 m
10 Oct 10:00 ▬ steady 0.363 m
10 Oct 09:45 ▬ steady 0.363 m
10 Oct 09:15 ▬ steady 0.363 m
10 Oct 09:00 ▬ steady 0.363 m
10 Oct 08:30 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.363 m
10 Oct 08:15 ▼ -0.8 cm 0.362 m
10 Oct 08:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.370 m
10 Oct 07:45 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.371 m
10 Oct 07:30 ▲ +0.6 cm 0.370 m
10 Oct 07:00 ▬ steady 0.364 m
10 Oct 06:45 ▬ steady 0.364 m
10 Oct 06:30 ▬ steady 0.364 m
10 Oct 06:15 0.364 m

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Trenear
  • Watercourse: River Cober
  • Nearest Town: Wendron
  • County: Cornwall
  • Coordinates: 50°8'2"N 5°15'17"W (50.133798, -5.254647)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 13 Feb 1998
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: 48126
  • RLOI id: 3392 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: 48126-level-stage-i-15_min-m
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: m
  • Typical rise rate: 2 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: West Cornwall
  • Typical Range: 0.354 – 1.000 m
  • Drainage Area: 27 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Daily mean flow (m³/s) to 8 Oct (2 days behind — the EA publishes each day's mean a day or two after it ends; unchecked, provisional) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.36 m (EA at 10 Oct 12:30)
  • 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.

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Distances by river: OS Open Rivers. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

💧 Storm overflows upstream of this gauge

None of the storm overflows FloodRadar holds is traced upstream of this gauge on the mapped river network. That is not the same as none: the map leaves out many small streams and culverts, so an overflow it cannot place may still drain here, and not every company publishes every overflow. Those nearby are listed below.

Nearby, connection not known

Within 6 km in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water passes this gauge.

💧
South West Water · into Nanceroy Stream (S) · 5.8 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
41 spills · 489 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last

5 other overflows within 6 km are downstream of this gauge or on another branch of the river network, so they are not listed.

These are the water companies' monitor statuses; a spill does not by itself explain a change in the gauge level. River connections and distances are traced on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels. Explore the sewage map →

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Rainfall & Weather

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How often this river runs high

In a typical year this gauge reaches its typical high of 1.00 m on about 3 days. This year so far: 9 days.

2026 9 days so far
2025 4 days
2024 3 days
2023 6 days
2022 0 days
2021 4 days
2020 2 days
2019 1 day
2018 4 days
2017 0 days

Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out.

Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2012 for the 5 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 0.5 km away).

3severe warnings 25flood warnings 20flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 28 Feb 2026 — River Cober at Trenear

Year by year
YearSevereWarningsAlerts
2026 0 4 7
2025 0 2 5
2024 0 2 6
2023 0 0 2
2021 0 4 0
2018 0 1 0
2013 0 3 0
2012 3 9 0

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 Wendron flood history.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 5 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.

Catchment Character

🌊 Groundwater-fed Slow 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
0.67
groundwater-fed — slow & steady
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,310 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +4% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.4%
largely rural
Highest Daily Mean Flow
5.25 m³/s
27 Jan 1988 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.4781.380.3290.0715% (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 6%Grassland 75%Arable 9%Heath/scrub 8%Urban 2%
Grassland 91% → 75% 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

Thin plate weir installed in 1988 and replaced in 2001.

More detail

The catchment

Igneous catchment, granite with some areas of alluvium. Land use is mostly rural/agricultural with little urbanisation. No major changes to catchment.

The station

Station opened in 1988 with a thin plate weir, approximately 4m wide. New stilling well, hut and new thin plate weir since September 2001. Removed from peak flows dataset in September 2023 (WINFAP Files v12).

How it measures flow

Unknown change in control in February 1998 which led to re-working of the rating. Banks have collapsed twice. Leaking weir in September 2000. Often bypasses at high flows, bankfull at 0.952m. Rating history is complex when compared to station history but matches gaugings from each period well. Multiple ratings applied across period of record. The most recent is valid from September 2001 when work rebuilding gauging station was completed and based on gaugings since 2001, does not account for bypassing. Current rating is in place to bankfull. Acoustic Time of Flight installed in March 2015 to improve the rating at the low end when it is difficult to gauge. Bypassing is a known problem and further work needs to be carried out to validate the rating at high flows since the station was rebuilt.

Flow regime

Station affected by a pumping station. Compensation flow.

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
1988
Flow record
1988–2024 · 36 yrs · 99% complete
Hydrometric area
48
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Cober at Trenear flooding today?

The current level is 0.36m, which is within the typical range of 0.35 to 1.00m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Trenear?

Based on the most recent readings, the level is currently steady. The chart above shows the last 12 hours of measurements by default (up to 7 days), updated roughly every 15 minutes.

What is a normal level for the River Cober at Trenear?

The typical range at this station is 0.35m to 1.00m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.00m are higher than usually seen and may indicate a flood risk.

How often is this river level data updated?

Readings are supplied by the Environment Agency gauge. FloodRadar checks for updates roughly every 15 minutes; the timestamp above shows how recent the latest available reading is.

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