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Belmont

Wye
Wye catchment • Belmont • Herefordshire • ID: 055002_TG 301 • Level
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Current Level
0.411 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.421 mASD
24h Min
0.357 mASD
Typical Range
0.18 - 3.80
mASD
Highest Recorded
6.99 mASD
EA official record
6.99 in our data (since Jan 1970)
Current level is 6% of this
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Falling · -1 cm over 7h
08 Oct 01:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.411 mASD
08 Oct 01:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.412 mASD
08 Oct 00:30 ▬ steady 0.413 mASD
08 Oct 00:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.413 mASD
08 Oct 00:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.414 mASD
07 Oct 23:45 ▬ steady 0.415 mASD
07 Oct 23:30 ▼ -0.3 cm 0.415 mASD
07 Oct 22:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.418 mASD
07 Oct 22:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.419 mASD
07 Oct 21:45 ▬ steady 0.420 mASD
07 Oct 21:30 ▬ steady 0.420 mASD
07 Oct 21:15 ▬ steady 0.420 mASD
07 Oct 21:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.420 mASD
07 Oct 20:45 ▬ steady 0.421 mASD
07 Oct 20:30 ▬ steady 0.421 mASD
07 Oct 20:00 ▬ steady 0.421 mASD
07 Oct 19:30 ▬ steady 0.421 mASD
07 Oct 19:15 ▬ steady 0.421 mASD
07 Oct 19:00 ▬ steady 0.421 mASD
07 Oct 18:45 0.421 mASD

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Belmont
  • Watercourse: River Wye
  • Nearest Town: Belmont
  • County: Herefordshire
  • Coordinates: 52°2'42"N 2°45'8"W (52.045084, -2.752202)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 1 Jan 1970
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: 055002_TG 301
  • RLOI id: 4002 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: 055002_TG_301-level-stage-i-15_min-mASD
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: mASD
  • 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: Wye
  • Typical Range: 0.175 – 3.800 mASD
  • Drainage Area: 1,896 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: 0.41 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.

Connected upstream

Connected downstream

Same river system, separate branch

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.

42 storm overflows are traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 30.7 km away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 42 report not discharging.

💧
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Willersley Brook · 30.7 km upstream along the river
37 spills · 530 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
Placed on the river by its position alone.
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Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Wye · 45.1 km upstream along the river
Not discharging now · last
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Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Wye · 46.0 km upstream along the river
Not discharging now
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Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Wye · 53.1 km upstream along the river
Not discharging now · last
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Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Wye · 53.8 km upstream along the river
Not discharging now · last
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Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Tregoyd Brook · 56.4 km upstream along the river
Not discharging now · last
Placed on the river by its position alone.
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Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Felindre Brook · 57.4 km upstream along the river
Not discharging now · last
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Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Wye · 60.1 km upstream along the river
Not discharging now · last

34 more further upstream, up to 123.6 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.

💧
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Wye · 2.2 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
Not discharging now · last
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Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Widemarsh Brook · 2.9 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
2 spills · 1 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into Yazor Brook · 3.7 km away in a straight line · several watercourses close by, nothing to choose between them
3 spills · 7 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last

15 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 3.80 m on about 16 days. This year so far: 3 days.

2026 3 days so far
2025 16 days, 5 of them high · 5 high
2024 22 days, 8 of them high · 8 high
2023 18 days, 6 of them high · 6 high
2022 6 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
2021 11 days, 4 of them high · 4 high
2020 20 days, 10 of them high · 10 high
2019 21 days, 7 of them high · 7 high
2018 10 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
2017 5 days patchy data

Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out, so a year marked patchy may have run high more often than shown. The darker part is days above 4.75 m, the level this gauge tops only a few days a year.

Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2011 for the 8 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 2.3 km away).

3severe warnings 90flood warnings 127flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 9 Dec 2025 — River Wye in North Hereford

Year by year
YearSevereWarningsAlerts
2026 0 0 19
2025 0 4 8
2024 0 12 11
2023 0 13 7
2022 0 3 6
2021 0 8 5
2020 3 20 9
2019 0 7 10
2018 0 6 11
2017 0 0 8
2016 0 0 6
2015 0 5 4
2014 0 5 4
2013 0 3 8
2012 0 4 10
2011 0 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 Belmont flood history.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 8 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.

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
1,328 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +5% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.3%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
431 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
691 m³/s
4 Dec 1960 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 47.5516326.476.175% (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 12%Grassland 74%Arable 7%Heath/scrub 5%Urban 1%Other 1%

Flow affected by: surface-water abstraction.

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

Channel control velocity-area station that does not contain extreme events with extrapolated flows probably under-estimated as rating does not take account of floodplain flow.

More detail

The catchment

Above Erwood (55007) are wet uplands draining Palaeozoic rocks; the lower third is a narrow corridor draining Old Red Sandstone, marls and subordinate glacial gravels, which supports arable farming. Upper catchment is predominantly grassland with some forest.

The station

Channel control velocity-area station, width at bankfull approx. 49 m; cableway span 62 m. Embankment constructed in 1966 on the left extends flood containment.

How it measures flow

Extreme events spill out. Severe weed growth problems. Extrapolated flows probably under-estimated as ratings do not not take account of floodplain flow. Originally, stages taken from 1908 at Hereford, 1.2km d/s; flows were measured at current site. Prior to 1932, data unreliable. Variations in stage-discharge relationship at flood flows due to works on floodplain and adjacent to river in Hereford i.e. modification of Old Wye Bridge - enlarged footings and additional internal arches; dates of remedial works unknown. Muliple peak flow ratings applied across period of record. Upper limit set to bank full. Ratings fit well to available gaugings.

Flow regime

Moderate flow modification, high levels of agricultural abstraction u/s. Naturalised discharges take into account reservoirs in the Elan Valley.

The flow record

Water year 1983/1984 was rejected due to the true AMAX occurring during a missing period. Ratings reviewed in 2022 and data reprocessed from 1984. Rating pre-1935 is unknown. Low confidence in applicability of rating and stage measurement 1935-1970 (Neither). From 1971-1985, rating EE is applicable up to stages of 5m (and therefore suitable for QMED). Post 1985, there is confidence in the rating, and the data are suitable for Pooling. 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
1935
Station datum
46.3 mAOD
Flow record
1935–2024 · 89 yrs · 99% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1908
Hydrometric area
55
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Wye at Belmont flooding today?

The current level is 0.41m, which is within the typical range of 0.18 to 3.80m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Belmont?

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 Wye at Belmont?

The typical range at this station is 0.18m to 3.80m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 3.80m 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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