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Germansweek

Wolf
Tamar catchment • Germansweek • Devon • ID: 47173 • Level
(44m ago) • 2 readings/hr • 130 views

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Current Level
0.061 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.064 m
24h Min
0.061 m
Typical Range
0.07 - 0.88
m
Highest Recorded
1.86 m
EA official record
1.86 in our data (since Aug 1991)
Current level is 3% of this
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Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Falling · -0.2 cm over 7h
08 Oct 02:30 ▬ steady 0.061 m
08 Oct 02:15 ▬ steady 0.061 m
08 Oct 01:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.061 m
08 Oct 01:00 ▬ steady 0.062 m
08 Oct 00:30 ▬ steady 0.062 m
08 Oct 00:15 ▬ steady 0.062 m
08 Oct 00:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.062 m
07 Oct 23:45 ▬ steady 0.063 m
07 Oct 23:30 ▬ steady 0.063 m
07 Oct 22:30 ▬ steady 0.063 m
07 Oct 22:00 ▬ steady 0.063 m
07 Oct 21:45 ▬ steady 0.063 m
07 Oct 21:30 ▬ steady 0.063 m
07 Oct 21:00 ▬ steady 0.063 m
07 Oct 20:45 ▬ steady 0.063 m
07 Oct 20:30 ▬ steady 0.063 m
07 Oct 20:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.063 m
07 Oct 20:00 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.064 m
07 Oct 19:30 ▬ steady 0.063 m
07 Oct 19:15 0.063 m

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Germansweek
  • Watercourse: River Wolf
  • Nearest Town: Germansweek
  • County: Devon
  • Nearest reservoir: Roadford (5.0 km) · 43.0% full (as of 27 Sep 2026)
  • Coordinates: 50°43'37"N 4°12'11"W (50.726814, -4.203103)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 1 Sep 1991
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: 47173
  • RLOI id: 3343 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: 47173-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: Tamar
  • Typical Range: 0.067 – 0.876 m
  • Drainage Area: 11 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: 0.06 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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3 other overflows within 6 km are downstream of this gauge or on another branch of the river network, so they are not listed.

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. Explore the sewage map →

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 0.88 m on about 1 day. This year so far: 0 days.

2026 0 days so far
2025 3 days
2024 0 days
2023 0 days
2022 0 days
2021 3 days
2020 0 days
2019 0 days
2018 0 days
2017 0 days

Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out.

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
0.41
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,298 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +0% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.1%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
10.76 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
7.65 m³/s
18 Dec 1999 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.2791.070.1280.0095% (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 69%Arable 1%Other 1%
Woodland 17% → 28% 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 in a relatively small catchment.

More detail

The catchment

Relatively small catchment area consists of Upper Carboniferous (mainly shale) with some areas of Sandstone, alluvium and river deposits. Land use mostly rural/agricultural. No urbanisation in the catchment. Roadford reservoir (downstream) completed in 1989. No major catchment changes.

The station

Station started in 1991 with a low level bed control. Channel approximately 5.2m wide.

How it measures flow

Maximum flows may be considerable over-estimates as out of bank section of rating is simply an extrapolation of the in-bank rating. Access problems at high flows and wading gauging only. Mobile bed. Bankfull at 0.89m. Multiple ratings applied across period of record, further gaugings required to validate ratings but site is remote and regime is flashy so can be hard to gauge.

The flow record

Missing data in 2001 due to Foot and Mouth epidemic meaning site visits were not able to happen. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in August 2025 (WINFAP Files v14).

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
1992
Flow record
1991–2024 · 33 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1991
Hydrometric area
47
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Wolf at Germansweek flooding today?

The current level is 0.06m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Germansweek?

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 River Wolf at Germansweek?

The typical range at this station is 0.07m to 0.88m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.88m 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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