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Current Level
0.121 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.138 m
24h Min
0.096 m
Typical Range
0.12 - 0.80
m
Highest Recorded
1.58 m
1 Jan 2025
Since Jan 1976
Current level is 8% of this
🚽Sewage overflows nearby
Recent Water Levels
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Prediction V2
Prediction Eris
Nimbus beta
Experimental model fusing soil moisture, river flow, groundwater and catchment
character. Shown with its calibrated 10–90% confidence band. Under evaluation —
not yet promoted, so treat as a second opinion.
River Flow
90 days
Daily mean discharge (m³/s) with the daily min–max band, from the EA Hydrology API. Flow is the volume of water passing the gauge — often a more direct flood signal than level.
Long Term
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Consecutive rainy days0 → 10+
Days Above Normal
This year vs 5-year monthly range
Recent Readings
Falling · -0.4 cm over 6h
24 Aug 00:30▬ steady0.121 m
24 Aug 00:15▬ steady0.121 m
24 Aug 00:00▼ -0.1 cm0.121 m
23 Aug 23:45▬ steady0.122 m
23 Aug 23:30▼ -0.1 cm0.122 m
23 Aug 23:15▼ -0.1 cm0.123 m
23 Aug 23:00▼ -0.1 cm0.124 m
23 Aug 22:45▼ -0.3 cm0.125 m
23 Aug 21:30▼ -0.1 cm0.128 m
23 Aug 21:15▬ steady0.129 m
23 Aug 21:00▬ steady0.129 m
23 Aug 20:45▬ steady0.129 m
23 Aug 20:30▬ steady0.129 m
23 Aug 20:15▬ steady0.129 m
23 Aug 20:00▲ +0.1 cm0.129 m
23 Aug 19:45▬ steady0.128 m
23 Aug 19:30▲ +0.1 cm0.128 m
23 Aug 19:15▲ +0.1 cm0.127 m
23 Aug 19:00▲ +0.1 cm0.126 m
23 Aug 18:450.125 m
Rainfall & Weather
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2006 for the 11 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 3.3 km away).
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 Partington flood history.
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
🌊 Urban & flashyHeavily 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
0.48
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
850 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +3% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
27%
heavily urbanised
Highest Recorded Flow
9.63 m³/s
31 Jul 2019
Flow-Duration Curve
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 3%Grassland 28%Arable 10%Urban 58%
Arable 23% → 10% since 1990
Flow affected by: public water supply, groundwater abstraction, effluent returns, industrial / agricultural abstraction.
Photos
Gauging-station photographs from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).
A compound crump profile weir in a heavily urbanised catchment.
More detail
The catchment
Very flat catchment, heavily urbanised although the bottom end is rural. Solid geology is Keuper Marl (70%) and sandstone (30%); south western portion Boulder Clay covered. Soils fine red loams or clays.
The station
Compound Crump profile weir, crest lengths 2.13m and 5.48m (total). Contained to wing wall height (2.0m). Weir much wider than u/s channel.
How it measures flow
Big siltation problem, crest tapping usually blocked. Revised data from start of record (1/1976) to 12/2008 loaded in 03/2010: new data are lower at high flows and slightly higher at low flows; previous max GDF on 6/8/81 reduced from 12.2 to 8.7 m3s-1.
Flow regime
Responsive regime. Storm waters from Wythenshaw, Sale and the M56 are directed to the Mersey.
The flow record
Peak in flow on 14 August 2014 is thought to be overestimated due to weed growth.
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Gauging structure
Operating since
1968
Station datum
13.0 mAOD
Flow record
1976–2024 · 48 yrs · 100% complete
Hydrometric area
69
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the Sinderland Brook at Partington flooding today?
The current level is 0.12m, which is within the typical range of 0.12 to 0.80m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Partington?
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.
What is a normal level for the Sinderland Brook at Partington?
The typical range at this station is 0.12m to 0.80m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.80m are higher than usually seen and may indicate a flood risk.
How often is this river level data updated?
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.
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