Derbyshire Derwent catchment
• Ashford in the Water • Derbyshire • ID: 4023 • Level
(32m ago) • 2 readings/hr • 164 views
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Current Level
0.258 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.260 mASD
24h Min
0.256 mASD
Typical Range
0.27 - 0.75
mASD
Highest Recorded
2.19 mASD
20 Apr 1986
Since Jan 1970
Current level is 12% of this
🚽Sewage overflows nearby
Recent Water Levels
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Prediction V2
Prediction Eris
Nimbus beta
Experimental model fusing soil moisture, river flow, groundwater and catchment
character. Shown with its calibrated 10–90% confidence band. 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.
Long Term
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Consecutive rainy days0 → 10+
Days Above Normal
This year vs 5-year monthly range
Recent Readings
Rising · +0.2 cm over 6h
23 Aug 23:00▬ steady0.258 mASD
23 Aug 22:45▼ -0.1 cm0.258 mASD
23 Aug 21:30▬ steady0.259 mASD
23 Aug 21:15▬ steady0.259 mASD
23 Aug 21:00▬ steady0.259 mASD
23 Aug 20:45▬ steady0.259 mASD
23 Aug 20:30▬ steady0.259 mASD
23 Aug 20:15▲ +0.1 cm0.259 mASD
23 Aug 20:00▬ steady0.258 mASD
23 Aug 19:45▬ steady0.258 mASD
23 Aug 19:30▲ +0.1 cm0.258 mASD
23 Aug 19:15▬ steady0.257 mASD
23 Aug 19:00▬ steady0.257 mASD
23 Aug 18:45▬ steady0.257 mASD
23 Aug 18:30▬ steady0.257 mASD
23 Aug 18:15▬ steady0.257 mASD
23 Aug 18:00▬ steady0.257 mASD
23 Aug 17:45▲ +0.1 cm0.257 mASD
23 Aug 17:30▬ steady0.256 mASD
23 Aug 17:150.256 mASD
Rainfall & Weather
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2006 for the 14 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.3 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 Ashford in the Water flood history.
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
🌊 Groundwater-fedSlow 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
0.68
groundwater-fed — slow & steady
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,229 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +2% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
2.3%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
16.85 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
30.67 m³/s
27 Oct 1998
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.
Open channel section until flat V weir commissioned in 1994.
More detail
The catchment
Moderate to high relief catchment in S Pennines. Carboniferous Limestone with basic sills and intrusions in upper catchment. Isolated hill top peat. Buxton in the headwaters, otherwise moorland, grazing, forested main valley.
The station
Open channel station opened 1965. Problems with severe seasonal weed growth led to closure of original velocity-area station in 1977 (telemetry of levels maintained). Flat-V weir (1:20 cross-slopes) commissioned 1994. Located just downstream of bridge in meandering reach; channel 11m wide.
How it measures flow
Open channel station well-rated to bankfull by gauging, and the December 1965 event gauged by current meter at 2.36m and 27.9 m3/s. There appears to have been a datum shift in March 1970 of around +0.30m. Applying a datum shift of +0.31m to data before 11/03/1970 and then applying the pre-weir rating gives similar flows to those shown in most cases (maximum difference of under 2 m3/s). Stage hydrographs of AMAX events in early record look reasonable. Although few gaugings above QMED pre- and post-weir, the highest events in both periods were gauged near the peaks. Most recent rating valid from April-1994 when weir installed. Pre-weir rated up to bankfull (2.35m). Post-weir rating valid to 2m; max gauging 1.55m; upper limb based on 2 gaugings. Post-weir high flows are derived from rating curve fitted to spot flow gaugings - gaugings suggest channel control at high flows is stable. Embankment limits spills onto left bank (see photos near peak of October 1998 event). Weir drowns at high flows. Weed/algae problems. Two peak flow ratings across period of record.
Flow regime
Modest net augmentation to flows from WRW and PWS.
The flow record
Low flows: Pre-weir record of limited value due to shifting bed control caused by annual weed growth. (But 1976 7-day minimum may be lower than that for 1995). No daily flows recorded 1977 to 1994. Data prior to 1965 is not held on record as deemed unreliable. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in August 2025 (WINFAP Files v14).
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Flat-V weir
Operating since
1965
Station datum
139.0 mAOD
Flow record
1965–2024 · 59 yrs · 71% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1965
Hydrometric area
28
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Wye at Ashford in the Water flooding today?
The current level is 0.26m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Ashford in the Water?
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 Wye at Ashford in the Water?
The typical range at this station is 0.27m to 0.75m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.75m 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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📮 Flood risk by postcode near this gauge
Postcodes within 5 km with properties in the Environment Agency’s rivers-and-sea flood-risk bands:
20 Jun 2021 Looking downstream towards station
20 Jun 2021 Looking downstream towards station
27 Oct 1998 Upstream bridge from gauging station during high flows
1 Jul 1996
1 Jul 1996
1 Jul 1996
1 Jul 1996 Looking downstream towards station
View of structure from downstream
View of structure from upstream
