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Bellever

East Dart River
Teign Torbay and South Hams catchment • Bellever • Devon • ID: 46123 • Level
(43m ago) • 2 readings/hr • 162 views

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Current Level
0.452 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.453 m
24h Min
0.448 m
Typical Range
0.45 - 1.50
m
Highest Recorded
2.24 m
EA official record
2.24 in our data (since Apr 1964)
Current level is 20% of this
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Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Steady over 7h
08 Oct 02:30 ▬ steady 0.452 m
08 Oct 02:15 ▬ steady 0.452 m
08 Oct 01:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.452 m
08 Oct 01:00 ▬ steady 0.453 m
08 Oct 00:30 ▬ steady 0.453 m
08 Oct 00:15 ▬ steady 0.453 m
08 Oct 00:00 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.453 m
07 Oct 23:45 ▬ steady 0.452 m
07 Oct 23:30 ▬ steady 0.452 m
07 Oct 22:30 ▬ steady 0.452 m
07 Oct 22:00 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.452 m
07 Oct 21:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.451 m
07 Oct 21:30 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.452 m
07 Oct 21:00 ▬ steady 0.451 m
07 Oct 20:45 ▬ steady 0.451 m
07 Oct 20:30 ▬ steady 0.451 m
07 Oct 20:15 ▬ steady 0.451 m
07 Oct 20:00 ▬ steady 0.451 m
07 Oct 19:30 ▬ steady 0.451 m
07 Oct 19:15 0.451 m

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Bellever
  • Watercourse: East Dart River
  • Nearest Town: Bellever
  • County: Devon
  • Nearest reservoir: Fernworthy (6.9 km) · 30.0% full (as of 27 Sep 2026)
  • Coordinates: 50°34'56"N 3°53'53"W (50.582293, -3.898034)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 31 Mar 1964
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: 46123
  • RLOI id: 3215 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: 46123-level-2-i-15_min-m
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: m
  • Typical rise rate: 1 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Teign Torbay and South Hams
  • Typical Range: 0.451 – 1.500 m
  • Drainage Area: 22 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Daily mean flow (m³/s) to 6 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: 0.45 m (EA at 8 Oct 02:30)
  • 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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Nearby

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

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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 1.50 m on about 5 days. This year so far: 1 day.

2026 1 day so far
2025 7 days
2024 5 days
2023 8 days
2022 5 days
2021 10 days
2020 4 days
2019 3 days
2018 5 days
2017 2 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 2006 for the 1 flood area linked to this gauge (nearest 9.9 km away).

17flood warnings 0flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 15 Feb 2020 — River Dart from Dartmeet to Buckfastleigh

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2020 1 0
2016 1 0
2013 2 0
2010 2 0
2009 4 0
2008 4 0
2007 2 0
2006 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 Bellever flood history.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. This is the area linked to this gauge, nearest first.

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
2,306 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +15% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.0%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
37.38 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
29.00 m³/s
27 Dec 1979 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 1.294.270.7110.2045% (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 4%Grassland 41%Heath/scrub 55%
Grassland 49% → 41% 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

Velocity area station, channel width approximately 11.5m; cableway approximately 26m.

More detail

The catchment

Steep, very wet, responsive, upland catchment on open moor, draining peat covered Dartmoor Granite moorland. Natural catchment. The whole river length consists of a series of rapids & short pools formed by natural or semi-natural boulder weirs & falls. The channel is large enough to contain most floods. Land use is moorland in the upper catchment and low grade agriculture and woodland in the lower. No major catchment changes.

The station

Velocity area station, channel width approximately 11.5m; cableway approximately 26m. Flood warning station.

How it measures flow

A natural rock step provides the control, with a low containment berm on the left bank. Some bypassing on left bank in highest floods. A three-arched bridge is present 0.8km downstream. Two ratings applied across period of record due to shifting natural control and changing channel geometry in downstream reach.

Flow regime

Runoff natural to within 10% at Q95.

The flow record

Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in September 2023 (WINFAP Files v12).

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
Velocity–area
Operating since
1964
Station datum
309.0 mAOD
Flow record
1964–2024 · 60 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1964
Hydrometric area
46
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the East Dart River at Bellever flooding today?

The current level is 0.45m, which is within the typical range of 0.45 to 1.50m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Bellever?

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 East Dart River at Bellever?

The typical range at this station is 0.45m to 1.50m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.50m 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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