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Snainton Ings

Brompton Beck
Derwent catchment • Brompton • North Yorkshire • ID: F2760 • Level
(51m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 119 views

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Current Level
0.034 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.035 m
24h Min
0.031 m
Typical Range
0.04 - 0.14
m
Highest Recorded
0.24 m
EA official record
A 0.38 reading (10 Feb 2014) sits in our unverified raw history and is not treated as the record
Current level is 14% of this
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Steady over 5h
10 Oct 12:45 ▬ steady 0.034 m
10 Oct 12:30 ▬ steady 0.034 m
10 Oct 12:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.034 m
10 Oct 12:00 ▬ steady 0.035 m
10 Oct 11:45 ▬ steady 0.035 m
10 Oct 11:30 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.035 m
10 Oct 11:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.034 m
10 Oct 11:00 ▬ steady 0.035 m
10 Oct 10:45 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.035 m
10 Oct 10:30 ▬ steady 0.034 m
10 Oct 10:15 ▬ steady 0.034 m
10 Oct 10:00 ▬ steady 0.034 m
10 Oct 09:45 ▬ steady 0.034 m
10 Oct 09:30 ▬ steady 0.034 m
10 Oct 09:15 ▬ steady 0.034 m
10 Oct 09:00 ▬ steady 0.034 m
10 Oct 08:45 ▬ steady 0.034 m
10 Oct 08:30 ▬ steady 0.034 m
10 Oct 08:15 ▬ steady 0.034 m
10 Oct 08:00 0.034 m

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Snainton Ings
  • Watercourse: Brompton Beck
  • Nearest Town: Brompton
  • County: North Yorkshire
  • Coordinates: 54°12'8"N 0°33'58"W (54.202353, -0.566177)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 13 Dec 1981
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: F2760
  • RLOI id: 8188 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: F2760-level-stage-i-15_min-m
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: m
  • 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: Derwent
  • Typical Range: 0.040 – 0.142 m
  • Drainage Area: 13 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Daily mean flow (m³/s) to 8 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: 0.03 m (EA at 10 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.

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Connected downstream

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Nearby

Distances by river: OS Open Rivers. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

💧 Storm overflows upstream of this gauge

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Nearby, connection not known

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

💧
Yorkshire Water · into Welldale Beck · 3.0 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
4 spills · 16 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last

3 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 0.14 m on about 39 days. This year so far: 35 days.

2026 35 days, 2 of them high · 2 high so far
2025 37 days
2024 58 days, 3 of them high · 3 high
2023 64 days, 20 of them high · 20 high
2022 0 days
2021 59 days, 37 of them high · 37 high
2020 10 days
2019 66 days, 6 of them high · 6 high
2018 46 days, 6 of them high · 6 high
2017 11 days

Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out. The darker part is days above 0.20 m, the level this gauge tops only a few days a year.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 2 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.

Catchment Character

🌊 Groundwater-fed Slow and steady — fed largely by groundwater, so levels change gradually, not in sudden spikes.

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
0.89
groundwater-fed — slow & steady
Avg Annual Rainfall
817 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +11% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
1.5%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
0.816 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
1.47 m³/s
30 Nov 2012 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.2740.6850.2130.0535% (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 6%Grassland 21%Arable 71%Urban 2%
Arable 79% → 71% since 1990

Flow affected by: groundwater 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

Crump weir in a permeable catchment. Flow regime strongly dependent on groundwater contribution.

More detail

The catchment

A mainly permeable (Corallian) catchment, with Jurassic Calcareous grits in the upper part of the catchment, Alluvium in the Vale of Pickering overlying Kimmeridge clay. Rural, predominantly arable. Surface and groundwater catchments may differ considerably due to a large groundwater component to the catchment. No known catchment changes.

The station

Formal Crump Weir, 5.5m wide, built over a drainage culvert. There is a concrete apron 3-4m u/s of the weir. A drain runs beneath the gauge, receiving drainage from low lying land adjacent to Brompton Beck.

How it measures flow

Full range and modular. No drowning due to a large (>3m) d/s drop to the Derwent. Single theoretical peak flow rating applied across period of record. Gauged to within 25% of AMAX1, all flow contained within wing walls.

Flow regime

Stable and sensibly natural regime, although groundwater abstraction may influence the regime. The flow is largely dependent on flow from two Corallian Limestone springs in Brompton, augmented in wet weather by land drainage inflow.

The flow record

Artificial drop in flow in July 2003; cause unknown but upstream damming or abstraction likely, investigation failed to identify the cause. Gap in data Aug-Oct 1988, cause unknown. Gap Jul-Aug 2002, suspect data was deleted. Short gap Jun 2003 due to instrument fault. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in September 2020 (WINFAP Files v9).

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
Crump weir
Operating since
1984
Station datum
9.0 mAOD
Flow record
1981–2024 · 43 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1981
Hydrometric area
27
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the Brompton Beck at Snainton Ings flooding today?

The current level is 0.03m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Snainton Ings?

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 Brompton Beck at Snainton Ings?

The typical range at this station is 0.04m to 0.14m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.14m 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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