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High river levels today may lead to flooding.
Flooding is possible from the evening of Saturday 24 October .
Storm Boelo is forecast to bring heavy rain and strong winds across Cumbria today, Saturday 24th October and overnight into tomorrow. River levels are likely to rise during the course of today and this evening with the potential for some flooding of low lying land. Locations most affected will be low lying land and roads near rivers Caldew and Petteril from the Lakeland Fells to Carlisle including Greystoke, Newton Reigny, Plumpton, Stockdalewath, Sebergham and Denton Holme in Carlisle.
We are closely monitoring the situation .
Take care and avoid walking, cycling or driving through flood water.
This message will be updated by 9:00AM on Sunday 25 October or as the situation changes.
Experimental model fusing soil moisture, river flow, groundwater and catchment
character. The shaded band is its 10–90% range, widened so that about 80% of recent outcomes fall inside it.
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.
Flow Data: Daily mean flow (m³/s) to 23 Oct (2 days behind — the EA publishes each day's mean a day or two after it ends; unchecked, provisional)via EA Hydrology
Storm overflows whose water reaches this gauge on the mapped river network, nearest first by distance along the river. The status is each water company's monitor: it says whether an overflow is discharging, not how much or what it contains.
1 storm overflow is traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 13.8 km away along the river. 1 reports discharging now, 0 report not discharging.
United Utilities · into Trib Grise Beck · 13.8 km upstream along the river
45 spills · 183 hours in 2025
Discharging nowsince
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. Sewage & storm overflows →
In a typical year this gauge reaches its typical high of 1.00 m
on about 4 days.
This year so far: 1 day.
20261 day, 1 of them high · 1 highso far
20253 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
20246 days, 6 of them high · 6 high
20234 days, 3 of them high · 3 high
20221 day, 1 of them high · 1 high
20215 days, 4 of them high · 4 high
20209 days, 7 of them high · 7 high
20195 days, 5 of them high · 5 high
20182 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
20172 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out.
The darker part is days above 1.10 m, the level this gauge tops only a few days a year.
Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2006 for the 3 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 0.8 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 Stockdalewath flood history.
Flood areas linked to this gauge
Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 3 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.
🌊 Fairly flashyResponds 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
0.43
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,056 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +5% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.0%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
42.85 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
50.10 m³/s
5 Dec 2015 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
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.
Land Cover (2023)
Woodland 7%Grassland 80%Arable 11%Urban 1%
Grassland 84% → 80% since 1990
Photos
Gauging-station photographs from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).
Non-standard timber weir gauging a rural, natural catchment.
More detail
The catchment
Rural catchment. Roe Beck drains upland hills in south west, joined by the flatter River Iver draining the south east. Bedrock is a mixture of mudstone, sandstone and limestone, with extensive cover of boulder clay. No catchment changes known.
The station
A non-standard V weir constructed from timber in March 1999, 12m across, anchored to the sandstone bed.
How it measures flow
The control is quite insensitive for lower flows and drowns at around 0.34m, but is good for medium to high flows. Pressure transducer used. High flows are controlled by the bridge downstream. Station hut floods in extreme events but still records. During the very highest flows there has been limited spill around the bridge. Rating developed from gaugings, with modelled top-end. Stable rating history.
Flow regime
Responsive catchment. No artificial influences known.
The flow record
Water year 1998/1999 rejected due to likely underestimation of true AMAX. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in August 2021 (WINFAP Files v10).
Timing, not cause. Gauges can move together simply because the same rain fell on both.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Roe Beck at Stockdalewath flooding today?
The current level is 0.67m, which is within the typical range of 0.18 to 1.00m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Stockdalewath?
Based on the most recent readings, the level is currently rising. 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 Roe Beck at Stockdalewath?
The typical range at this station is 0.18m 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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