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Greenholme

Irthing
Eden and Esk catchment • Greenholme • Cumberland • ID: 763308 • Level
(22m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 122 views

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Current Level
0.263 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.300 m
24h Min
0.262 m
Typical Range
0.22 - 1.73
m
Highest Recorded
3.61 m
12 Jun 2019
Since Jan 1975
Current level is 7% of this
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Falling · -0.6 cm over 6h
24 Aug 00:30 ▬ steady 0.263 m
24 Aug 00:15 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.263 m
24 Aug 00:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.262 m
23 Aug 23:45 ▬ steady 0.263 m
23 Aug 23:30 ▬ steady 0.263 m
23 Aug 23:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.263 m
23 Aug 23:00 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.264 m
23 Aug 22:45 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.263 m
23 Aug 21:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.265 m
23 Aug 21:15 ▬ steady 0.266 m
23 Aug 21:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.266 m
23 Aug 20:45 ▬ steady 0.267 m
23 Aug 20:30 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.267 m
23 Aug 20:15 ▬ steady 0.266 m
23 Aug 20:00 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.266 m
23 Aug 19:45 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.268 m
23 Aug 19:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.267 m
23 Aug 19:15 ▬ steady 0.268 m
23 Aug 19:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.268 m
23 Aug 18:45 0.269 m

Rainfall & Weather

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2007 for the 9 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.6 km away).

7severe warnings 53flood warnings 0flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 12 Mar 2026River Eden at Warwick Holmes

Year by year
YearSevereWarningsAlerts
2026 0 1 0
2025 0 5 0
2024 0 11 0
2023 0 4 0
2021 0 1 0
2020 0 9 0
2018 0 1 0
2017 0 1 0
2015 7 12 0
2011 0 4 0
2009 0 3 0
2007 0 1 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 Greenholme flood history.

Nearby Stations

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Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Greenholme
  • Watercourse: River Irthing
  • Nearest Town: Greenholme
  • County: Cumberland
  • Coordinates: 54°54'53"N 2°48'11"W (54.914677, -2.803045)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 8 Jan 1975
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
  • Station Reference: 763308
  • EA Gauge ID: 763308-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: Eden and Esk
  • Typical Range: 0.224 – 1.730 m
  • Drainage Area: 335 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Available (m³/s) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.26 m (EA at 24 Aug 00:15)
  • 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

🌊 Fairly flashy Responds fairly quickly to rain, with moderate baseflow between events.

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
1,169 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +9% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.3%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
155 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
199 m³/s
5 Dec 2015
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 8.1829.204.011.105% (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 28%Grassland 50%Arable 3%Heath/scrub 17%Urban 1%
Grassland 55% → 50% since 1990

Flow affected by: surface-water abstraction, public water supply.

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 with non-standard shallow V weir.

More detail

The catchment

Tributaries rising in the Pennines are short, steep and flashy through heather and moorland cover. Solid geology dominated by Carboniferous L'st - outcrops on steep slopes. Extensive hill peat, Boulder Clay, and glacial sands and gravels. Land-use is moorland to arable. Some urbanisation in villages and Brampton town. Afforestation began in the 1950s, peaked in the 1970s and, by 2000, constituted almost 20% of the catchment.

The station

Velocity area station with non-standard shallow V weir (2m wide in the direction of flow) installed between February and August 1975. Originally (1967-1975), had a plastic pipe control that was effective over most of the flow range.

How it measures flow

Permanent cableway. The present shallow V control is insensitive at low levels but retains control in reasonably high flows. Thought to be affected sometimes by high levels in the River Eden. Floodplain flow occurs at very high flows. One peak flow rating applied across period of record that accounts for bypassing. Upper limb of rating developed by hydraulic modelling. Flood Studies Report grade B.

Flow regime

Medium-high flows can be affected by backing-up from the Eden. Moderately affected by Castle Carrock Reservoir and associated public water supply abstractions from the River Gelt, which controls <1% of the area.

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
1967
Station datum
18.4 mAOD
Flow record
1967–2024 · 57 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1967
Hydrometric area
76
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Irthing at Greenholme flooding today?

The current level is 0.26m, which is within the typical range of 0.22 to 1.73m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Greenholme?

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 Irthing at Greenholme?

The typical range at this station is 0.22m to 1.73m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.73m 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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