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ERMINGTON

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• ID: E81836 (formerly SX65F051) • Flow
⚙ The Environment Agency registered this site as SX65F051 until 2 Aug 2026; its history is included on this page.
(24m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 135 views
Current Flow
0.546 m3/s
▲ Rising (+4cm/hr)
24h Max
0.546 m3/s
24h Min
0.353 m3/s
Typical Range
-
Highest Recorded
49.05 m3/s
27 Jan 2026
Since Feb 2025
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Recent Flow Readings

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Recent Readings

Rising · +12 cm over 6h
20 Sep 07:30 ▲ +1 cm 0.546 m3/s
20 Sep 07:15 ▲ +0.6 cm 0.534 m3/s
20 Sep 07:00 ▬ steady 0.528 m3/s
20 Sep 06:45 ▲ +0.5 cm 0.528 m3/s
20 Sep 06:30 ▲ +0.6 cm 0.523 m3/s
20 Sep 06:15 ▲ +2 cm 0.517 m3/s
20 Sep 06:00 ▲ +1 cm 0.500 m3/s
20 Sep 05:45 ▲ +0.5 cm 0.489 m3/s
20 Sep 05:30 ▼ -0.5 cm 0.484 m3/s
20 Sep 05:15 ▲ +2 cm 0.489 m3/s
20 Sep 04:30 ▲ +2 cm 0.468 m3/s
20 Sep 04:15 ▬ steady 0.447 m3/s
20 Sep 04:00 ▼ -0.6 cm 0.447 m3/s
20 Sep 03:30 ▲ +0.6 cm 0.453 m3/s
20 Sep 03:15 ▲ +2 cm 0.447 m3/s
20 Sep 03:00 ▲ +1 cm 0.432 m3/s
20 Sep 02:45 ▬ steady 0.418 m3/s
20 Sep 02:30 ▼ -0.9 cm 0.418 m3/s
20 Sep 02:15 ▬ steady 0.427 m3/s
20 Sep 02:00 0.427 m3/s

Rainfall & Weather

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2006 for the 6 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 0.6 km away).

2severe warnings 34flood warnings 298flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 15 Dec 2025 — River Yealm at Yealmbridge and Yealmpton

Year by year
YearSevereWarningsAlerts
2026 0 0 7
2025 0 4 24
2024 0 0 25
2023 0 2 21
2022 0 2 15
2021 0 0 10
2020 0 2 18
2019 0 0 20
2018 0 3 13
2017 0 0 4
2016 0 1 15
2015 0 0 15
2014 0 10 15
2013 0 1 24
2012 1 7 31
2011 0 0 8
2010 0 0 4
2009 0 0 7
2008 1 1 12
2007 0 1 7
2006 0 0 3

Warnings apply to a whole flood area, not necessarily this exact spot. Years before 2006 aren't covered by the EA's historic record.

Nearby Stations

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Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: ERMINGTON
  • Watercourse: —
  • Coordinates: 50°21'47"N 3°54'40"W (50.363074, -3.911208)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: Flow gauging station (inferred)
  • Station Reference: E81836
  • Previous references: SX65F051 (to 2 Aug 2026)
  • Also at this site: Ermington (46118, level, reporting)
  • EA Gauge ID: E81836-flow-water-i-15_min-m3_s
  • Parameter: Flow
  • Unit: m3/s
  • Typical rise rate: 9 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Drainage Area: 44 km² upstream of this gauge
  • 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.

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
0.47
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,852 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +8% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
3.2%
partly urbanised
Median Annual Flood
47.19 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
32.30 m³/s
31 Dec 2000 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 2.016.721.110.2825% (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 5%Grassland 78%Arable 2%Heath/scrub 7%Urban 7%
Grassland 70% → 78% since 1990

Flow affected by: public water supply, effluent returns, industrial / agricultural abstraction.

Photos

Gauging-station photographs from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).

26 Jan 2016 — 1.0m Looking US from weir 26 Jan 2016 1.0m Looking US from weir 26 Jan 2016 — 1.0m Weir 26 Jan 2016 1.0m Weir 7 Jul 2008 — 1.1m Weir and view DS 7 Jul 2008 1.1m Weir and view DS 15 Jan 2008 — Looking downstream from RHB. SG 1.45m 15 Jan 2008 Looking downstream from RHB. SG 1.45m 10 Mar 2006 10 Mar 2006 19 Jan 1994 — Looking DS over weir 19 Jan 1994 Looking DS over weir 19 Jan 1994 — Looking upstream. RHB SG. 19 Jan 1994 Looking upstream. RHB SG. 19 Jan 1994 — Weir and RHB. 19 Jan 1994 Weir and RHB.

Photos © NRFA / UKCEH & the measuring authority — shown at web resolution. Full gallery on the NRFA ↗

About this gauge

Velocity area station with cableway and Flat V control.

More detail

The catchment

Narrow, linear, north-south trending catchment draining southern flank of Dartmoor Granite. Headwaters in plateau-like moorland; main river section in steep, deeply incised valley with short tributaries. Off granite, Devonian Slates widely blanketed with river gravel and alluvium. Responsive catchment. Land-use is moorland in the upper catchment and predominantly low-grade agriculture elsewhere. Catchment includes town of Ivybridge. No major catchment changes.

The station

Velocity area station with low level Flat V control. Control is approximately 9.4m wide and unchanged. Station is located a few hundred metres east of the village of Ermington.

How it measures flow

Stony river bed. Cableway present. Good station, minimal bypassing and well rated with reasonable fit to available gaugings. Recent investigations suggest backing-up when high flow coincides with high tide. Mutliple peak flow ratings accross period of record.

Flow regime

Significant flow modifications by abstractions and diversions for public water supply and sewage effluent returns from Ivybridge.

The flow record

Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in September 2020 (WINFAP Files v9). Rating reviewed in 2022 and data reprocessed for the full period of record.

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
Gauging structure
Operating since
1973
Station datum
7.9 mAOD
Flow record
1973–2024 · 51 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1973
Hydrometric area
46
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is ERMINGTON flooding today?

The latest recorded level is 0.55m. Compare it with the recent history on the chart above to judge whether levels are unusually high.

Is the river level rising or falling at ERMINGTON?

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.

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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