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Eastgate

Rookhope Burn
Wear catchment • Eastgate • County Durham • ID: 024006 • Level
(34m ago) • 3 readings/hr • 170 views

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Current Level
0.031 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.032 m
24h Min
0.031 m
Typical Range
0.04 - 0.82
m
Highest Recorded
1.50 m
EA official record
1.62 in our data (since Jan 1961)
Current level is 2% of this
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Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Steady over 6h
13 Sep 11:15 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 10:45 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 10:30 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 10:15 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 10:00 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 09:30 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 09:15 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 09:00 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 08:45 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 08:15 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 08:00 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 07:45 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 07:30 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 07:15 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 07:00 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 06:45 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 06:30 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 06:15 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 06:00 ▬ steady 0.031 m
13 Sep 05:45 0.031 m

Rainfall & Weather

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2011 for the 4 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 3.8 km away).

3flood warnings 24flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 5 Dec 2015River Wear at Stanhope

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2025 0 1
2023 0 3
2022 0 1
2021 0 1
2020 0 2
2019 0 1
2018 0 1
2017 0 2
2015 3 4
2013 0 6
2012 0 1
2011 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 Eastgate flood history.

Nearby Stations

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Station Details

  • Station Reference: 024006
  • EA Gauge ID: 024006-level-stage-i-15_min-m
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: m
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Wear
  • Typical Range: 0.036 – 0.820 m
  • Drainage Area: 37 km² upstream of this gauge
  • EA Cross-check: 0.03 m (EA at 13 Sep 11:15)
  • 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

🌊 Flashy Rain runs off fast — levels rise and fall sharply, often 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
0.29
flashy — rain runs off fast
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,205 mm/yr
1991–2020 · -1% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.0%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
24.62 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
22.74 m³/s
2 Mar 1979 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.7772.740.3960.0745% (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 1%Grassland 40%Heath/scrub 58%
Heath/scrub 44% → 58% since 1990

Flow affected by: effluent returns.

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

Compound Crump weir. Station closed in 1980, but reopened as a level-only site in February 2000 for flood warning purposes.

More detail

The catchment

A steep moorland catchment. No known catchment changes.

The station

Two-stage compound Crump weir, 8.8m broad, low crest 1.5m wide, on a natural waterfall 0.6km u/s of confluence with the River Wear. Discontinued 1980; re-opened February 2000 as a level-only flood warning site. Wing walls were removed on closure, and central low-flow crest raised to level of flanking weirs on reopening. Subject to considerable gravel accretion.

How it measures flow

Modular throughout the range. Bypassed on both banks above wing walls. One peak flow rating applied across period of record. Gaugings confirm theoretical rating. Flood Studies Report grade A1.

Flow regime

Flashy response with peaked hydrographs. No known artificial influences.

The flow record

Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in August 2024 (WINFAP Files v13).

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
1957–1980
Station datum
241.0 mAOD
Flow record
1957–1980 · 23 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1960
Hydrometric area
24
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the Rookhope Burn at Eastgate flooding today?

The current level is 0.03m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Eastgate?

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 Rookhope Burn at Eastgate?

The typical range at this station is 0.04m 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 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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