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Brant Broughton

Brant
Witham catchment • Brant Broughton • Lincolnshire • ID: E2815 • Level
(28m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 200 views

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Current Level
0.066 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.076 mASD
24h Min
0.066 mASD
Typical Range
0.04 - 0.30
mASD
Highest Recorded
2.62 mASD
EA official record
1.07 in our data (since Feb 2024)
Current level is 3% of this
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Steady over 5h
08 Oct 12:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 12:30 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.067 mASD
08 Oct 12:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 12:00 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.067 mASD
08 Oct 11:45 ▬ steady 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 11:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 11:15 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.067 mASD
08 Oct 11:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 10:45 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.067 mASD
08 Oct 10:30 ▬ steady 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 10:00 ▬ steady 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 09:45 ▬ steady 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 09:30 ▬ steady 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 09:15 ▬ steady 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 09:00 ▬ steady 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 08:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 08:30 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.067 mASD
08 Oct 08:00 ▬ steady 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 07:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.066 mASD
08 Oct 07:30 0.067 mASD

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Brant Broughton
  • Watercourse: River Brant
  • Nearest Town: Brant Broughton
  • County: Lincolnshire
  • Coordinates: 53°4'50"N 0°36'52"W (53.080542, -0.614579)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 1 Jan 1989
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: E2815
  • Also at this site: BRANT BROUGHTON GS (E3012, flow, reporting)
  • RLOI id: 6053 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: E2815-level-stage-i-15_min-mASD
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: mASD
  • Typical rise rate: 1 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Witham
  • Typical Range: 0.040 – 0.298 mASD
  • Drainage Area: 66 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: 0.07 mASD (EA at 8 Oct 12:45)
  • 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 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.

2 storm overflows are traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 690 m away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 2 report not discharging.

💧
Anglian Water · into River Brant · 690 m upstream along the river
23 spills · 362 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
💧
Anglian Water · into The Beck · 7.5 km upstream along the river
37 spills · 183 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
Placed on the river by its position alone.

Nearby, connection not known

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

💧
Anglian Water · into Unnamed Tributary R Brant · 2.8 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
49 spills · 935 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last

1 other overflow within 6 km is downstream of this gauge or on another branch of the river network, so it is 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 0.30 m on about 18 days. This year so far: 46 days.

2026 46 days so far
2025 18 days

Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. This is the area 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
0.37
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
612 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +1% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.7%
largely rural
Highest Daily Mean Flow
28.50 m³/s
20 Oct 2023 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.2821.010.0730.0075% (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 3%Grassland 20%Arable 75%Urban 2%
Arable 83% → 75% since 1990

Flow affected by: groundwater abstraction, industrial / agricultural abstraction.

About this gauge

Crump profile Flat V weir gauge on the Brant.

More detail

The catchment

Low relief catchment to W of Lincoln Edge. Geology: Lower Lias clays and subordinant l'sts with some Middle Lias on eastern watershed. Over 20% cover by broad band of river terrace sands and gravels, which forms much of western catchment. Rural catchment, with predominantly arable land use.

The station

Crump profile Flat V (1:10) weir, 6m wide, set in vertical wingwalls 1.5m high. U/s and sidewall tappings for non-modular flow estimation (not used). Channel u/s formed by training banks circa 1m higher than walls.

The flow record

1991-present. Patchy record 1994-1995.

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
Flat-V weir
Operating since
1990
Station datum
10.0 mAOD
Flow record
1990–2024 · 34 yrs · 100% complete
Hydrometric area
30
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Brant at Brant Broughton flooding today?

The current level is 0.07m, which is within the typical range of 0.04 to 0.30m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Brant Broughton?

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 Brant at Brant Broughton?

The typical range at this station is 0.04m to 0.30m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.30m 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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