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Bucknall

Trent ⚙ Structure
Staffordshire Trent Valley catchment • Bucknall • Staffordshire • ID: 4040 • Level
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Current Level
0.075 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.121 mASD
24h Min
0.066 mASD
Typical Range
0.07 - 0.39
mASD
Highest Recorded
2.51 mASD
EA official record
1.35 in our data (since Mar 1968)
Current level is 3% of this
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Water Levels

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Flood predictions aren't generated for lock / structure gauges — their levels are driven by gate operation, not by catchment rainfall, so the forecast models would have no skill here.

Recent Readings

Falling · -0.5 cm over 6h
08 Oct 01:15 ▬ steady 0.075 mASD
08 Oct 01:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.075 mASD
08 Oct 00:45 ▬ steady 0.076 mASD
08 Oct 00:30 ▬ steady 0.076 mASD
08 Oct 00:15 ▬ steady 0.076 mASD
08 Oct 00:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.076 mASD
07 Oct 23:45 ▬ steady 0.077 mASD
07 Oct 23:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.077 mASD
07 Oct 22:15 ▬ steady 0.078 mASD
07 Oct 22:00 ▬ steady 0.078 mASD
07 Oct 21:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.078 mASD
07 Oct 21:30 ▬ steady 0.079 mASD
07 Oct 21:15 ▬ steady 0.079 mASD
07 Oct 21:00 ▬ steady 0.079 mASD
07 Oct 20:45 ▬ steady 0.079 mASD
07 Oct 20:30 ▬ steady 0.079 mASD
07 Oct 20:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.079 mASD
07 Oct 20:00 ▬ steady 0.080 mASD
07 Oct 19:45 ▬ steady 0.080 mASD
07 Oct 19:30 0.080 mASD

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Bucknall
  • Watercourse: River Trent
  • Nearest Town: Bucknall
  • County: Staffordshire
  • Nearest reservoir: Tittesworth (17.0 km) · 36.8% full (as of 5 Oct 2026)
  • Coordinates: 53°1'3"N 2°9'44"W (53.017569, -2.162134)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 29 Sep 1972
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station (multi-sensor)
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: 4040
  • RLOI id: 2116 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: 4040-level-stage-i-15_min-mASD
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: mASD
  • Typical rise rate: 14 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: ⚙ Yes — lock, weir, sluice or pump
  • Catchment Area: Staffordshire Trent Valley
  • Typical Range: 0.067 – 0.388 mASD
  • Drainage Area: 53 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: -0.47 mASD (EA at 8 Oct 01:30)
  • 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.

Nearby Stations

Gauges connected to this river, and others nearby. A distance “by river” follows the river on the map; any other is in a straight line.

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Connected downstream

Same river system, separate branch

Nearby

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

💧 Storm overflows upstream of this gauge

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.

11 storm overflows are traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 360 m away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 10 report not discharging, and for 1 the monitor is offline or has not reported, so their status is not known.

💧
Severn Trent Water · into Sws To The River Trent · 360 m upstream along the river
22 spills · 9 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
Reaches the river through a sewer, so where it enters is approximate.
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Severn Trent Water · into River Trent · 540 m upstream along the river
16 spills · 38 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into River Trent · 880 m upstream along the river
44 spills · 157 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into Causley Brook · 2.2 km upstream along the river
2 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
Placed on the river by its position alone.
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Severn Trent Water · into Trib Of River Trent · 2.9 km upstream along the river
12 spills · 7 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into Trib Of River Trent · 2.9 km upstream along the river
22 spills · 17 hours in 2025
Status unknown — the live feed has not updated for 7 d 15 h
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Severn Trent Water · into River Trent · 2.9 km upstream along the river
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now
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Severn Trent Water · into Trib Of River Trent · 2.9 km upstream along the river
17 spills · 9 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last

3 more further upstream, up to 7.2 km away along the river.

Nearby, connection not known

Within 6 km in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water passes this gauge.

💧
Severn Trent Water · into Sws To The River Trent · 110 m away in a straight line · too close to the gauge to say which side
20 spills · 9 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into River Trent (Non Tidal) · 530 m away in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now
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Severn Trent Water · into River Trent (Non Tidal) · 600 m away in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water
7 spills · 2 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into Caldon Canal · 1.2 km away in a straight line · discharges into a canal
1 spill · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into Tributary Of The Caldon Canal · 1.6 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
21 spills · 18 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into Tributary Of The Caldon Canal · 1.6 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
1 spill · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now
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Severn Trent Water · into Tributary Of The Caldon Canal · 1.6 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
5 spills · 1 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into Trib (Ditch) Of River Trent · 1.7 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
35 spills · 84 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last

37 more within 6 km whose connection is not known.

46 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 0.39 m on about 34 days. This year so far: 13 days.

2026 13 days, 1 of them high · 1 high so far
2025 25 days, 3 of them high · 3 high
2024 41 days, 10 of them high · 10 high
2023 37 days, 4 of them high · 4 high
2022 24 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
2021 48 days, 7 of them high · 7 high
2020 45 days, 8 of them high · 8 high
2019 47 days, 10 of them high · 10 high
2018 12 days, 1 of them high · 1 high
2017 25 days, 1 of them high · 1 high

Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out. The darker part is days above 0.83 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 11 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.1 km away).

20flood warnings 78flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 6 Jan 2025 — Endon Brook at Denford

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2026 0 5
2025 1 9
2024 1 10
2023 2 6
2022 0 6
2021 3 9
2020 4 6
2019 5 12
2018 1 2
2016 0 2
2015 1 2
2014 2 2
2013 0 1
2012 0 4
2007 0 1
2006 0 1

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 Bucknall flood history.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 11 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.

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Catchment Character

🌊 Urban & flashy Heavily built-up — rain runs off hard surfaces fast, so levels can spike within hours of heavy rain.

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
0.40
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
894 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +2% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
16%
heavily urbanised
Median Annual Flood
11.54 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
29.50 m³/s
23 Aug 1987 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.6342.080.3580.1195% (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 61%Arable 1%Heath/scrub 1%Urban 32%Other 1%
Urban 29% → 32% since 1990

Flow affected by: surface-water abstraction, groundwater abstraction, effluent returns.

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

Crump profile weir draining and urbanised and industrialised catchment with significant flow modification.

More detail

The catchment

Moderate relief catchment, significantly urbanised at Biddulph and Stoke on Trent, draining the Coal Measures; approximately quarter of catchment is covered with Boulder Clay.

The station

Crump profile weir, 4.12m wide, modular throughout range. Liable to collect rubbish and fish baffles added in 2012.

How it measures flow

Four peak flow ratings applied across period of record. Current meter gaugings show a high degree of accuracy compared to rating. Low flow ADCP gaugings typically carried out between weir wing walls. High flow gaugings performed off or near upstream footbridge.

Flow regime

A responsive catchment affected by impounding reservoirs, discharges from three WRW's, plus mine drainage. Substantial flow modification in the early record, but reduced to significant through the 1980s. Flow affected by STW closure: effluent from Stoke diverted to other STW downstream of the gauge.

The flow record

Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in September 2019 (WINFAP Files v8).

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
Crump weir
Operating since
1968
Station datum
113.2 mAOD
Flow record
1968–2024 · 56 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1968
Hydrometric area
28
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Trent at Bucknall flooding today?

The current level is 0.08m, which is within the typical range of 0.07 to 0.39m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Bucknall?

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 Trent at Bucknall?

The typical range at this station is 0.07m to 0.39m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.39m 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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