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Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2012 for the 10 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 3.2 km away).
Most recent flood warning: 20 Sep 2025 — Bessy Brook at Lostock
| Year | Warnings | Alerts |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | 0 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019 | 5 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 |
| 2012 | 3 | 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 Farnworth flood history.
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Geographic coordinates may reflect the access point for the gauge, and not the precise location in the watercourse that it is taking readings from.
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).
Flow affected by: surface-water abstraction, public water supply, groundwater abstraction, effluent returns, industrial / agricultural abstraction.
Gauging-station photographs from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).
18 Oct 2017 Downstream view towards weir
18 Oct 2017 Upstream view
18 Oct 2017 Upstream view (taken from right bank)
Looking u/s over weir from R bank
Looking d/s from weir R bank
Across weir from R bank
Photos © NRFA / UKCEH & the measuring authority — shown at web resolution. Full gallery on the NRFA ↗
Non-standard broad-crested weir gauging a highly urbanised and industrial catchment.
Descriptions from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH). NRFA station record ↗
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
The current level is 0.07m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
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.
The typical range at this station is 0.07m to 1.00m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.00m are higher than usually seen and may indicate a flood risk.
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.
Free live river-level widget — ideal for parish councils, angling clubs and local sites. Updates automatically.
Postcodes within 5 km with properties in the Environment Agency’s rivers-and-sea flood-risk bands:
