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Liverpool

Tide 🌊 Tidal
England - West Coast catchment • Bootle • Liverpool City Region • ID: E70139 • Level
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This gauge is tidally influenced — levels rise and fall with each tide, so rapid changes here are normal and don't necessarily indicate flooding.
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Current Level
3.819 mAOD
Trend unavailable
24h Max
4.415 mAOD
24h Min
-3.432 mAOD
Typical Range
-
Highest Recorded
6.06 mAOD
EA official record
5.33 in our data (since Feb 2025)
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Recent Water Levels

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Flood predictions aren't generated for tidal gauges — their levels are driven by the tide, not by catchment rainfall, so the forecast models would have no skill here.

Recent Readings

Rising · +665 cm over 7h
10 Oct 12:30 ▼▼ -38 cm 3.819 mAOD
10 Oct 12:00 ▼▼ -8 cm 4.203 mAOD
10 Oct 11:45 ▼▼ -13 cm 4.286 mAOD
10 Oct 11:30 ▲▲ +26 cm 4.415 mAOD
10 Oct 11:00 ▲▲ +38 cm 4.158 mAOD
10 Oct 10:30 ▲▲ +61 cm 3.775 mAOD
10 Oct 10:00 ▲▲ +45 cm 3.166 mAOD
10 Oct 09:45 ▲▲ +91 cm 2.715 mAOD
10 Oct 09:15 ▲▲ +56 cm 1.802 mAOD
10 Oct 09:00 ▲▲ +60 cm 1.247 mAOD
10 Oct 08:45 ▲▲ +65 cm 0.647 mAOD
10 Oct 08:30 ▲▲ +124 cm -0.004 mAOD
10 Oct 08:00 ▲▲ +59 cm -1.240 mAOD
10 Oct 07:45 ▲▲ +50 cm -1.826 mAOD
10 Oct 07:30 ▲▲ +69 cm -2.323 mAOD
10 Oct 07:00 ▲▲ +38 cm -3.009 mAOD
10 Oct 06:30 ▲ +4 cm -3.393 mAOD
10 Oct 06:15 ▼▼ -21 cm -3.432 mAOD
10 Oct 05:45 ▼▼ -39 cm -3.222 mAOD
10 Oct 05:15 -2.830 mAOD

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Liverpool
  • Watercourse: Tide
  • Nearest Town: Bootle
  • County: Liverpool City Region
  • Coordinates: 53°26'59"N 3°1'5"W (53.449655, -3.018007)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 5 Jan 2012
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: Tidal / coastal station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: E70139
  • RLOI id: 5084 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: E70139-anglian-level-tidal_level-Mean-15_min-mAOD
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: mAOD
  • Typical rise rate: 242 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~37 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: 🌊 Yes — levels follow the tide
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: England - West Coast
  • EA Cross-check: 4.20 mAOD (EA at 10 Oct 12:00)

Geographic coordinates may reflect the access point for the gauge, and not the precise location in the watercourse that it is taking readings from.

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2006 for the 16 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 2.0 km away).

2severe warnings 68flood warnings 116flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 4 Sep 2026 — Tue Brook at Clubmoor

Year by year
YearSevereWarningsAlerts
2026 0 7 4
2025 0 5 7
2024 0 8 14
2023 0 10 8
2022 0 3 3
2021 2 8 8
2020 0 3 19
2019 0 12 13
2018 0 2 7
2017 0 2 0
2016 0 0 9
2015 0 3 7
2014 0 2 6
2013 0 3 2
2012 0 0 2
2011 0 0 1
2008 0 0 4
2006 0 0 2

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 Bootle flood history.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 16 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.

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Frequently asked questions

Is the Tide at Liverpool flooding today?

The latest recorded level is 3.82m. Compare it with the recent history on the chart above to judge whether levels are unusually high.

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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