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Catterick Bridge

Swale
Swale, Ure, Nidd and Upper Ouse catchment • Catterick Bridge • North Yorkshire • ID: F2306 • Level
(41m ago) • 2 readings/hr • 179 views

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Current Level
0.226 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.251 m
24h Min
0.226 m
Typical Range
0.30 - 2.50
m
Highest Recorded
3.91 m
16 Mar 2013
Since Dec 1992
Current level is 6% of this
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Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Steady over 6h
23 Aug 22:45 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 22:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.226 m
23 Aug 21:15 ▬ steady 0.227 m
23 Aug 21:00 ▬ steady 0.227 m
23 Aug 20:45 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.227 m
23 Aug 20:30 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 20:15 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 20:00 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 19:45 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 19:30 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 19:15 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 19:00 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 18:45 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 18:30 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 18:15 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 18:00 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 17:45 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 17:30 ▬ steady 0.226 m
23 Aug 17:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.226 m
23 Aug 17:00 0.227 m

Rainfall & Weather

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2011 for the 11 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 0.3 km away).

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Most recent flood warning: 9 Feb 2020River Swale at Great Langton

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2020 5 0
2017 2 0
2016 1 0
2015 16 0
2013 3 0
2012 12 0
2011 11 0

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 Catterick Bridge flood history.

Nearby Stations

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Station Details

  • Station Reference: F2306
  • EA Gauge ID: F2306-level-stage-i-15_min-m
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: m
  • Typical rise rate: 4 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~37 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Swale, Ure, Nidd and Upper Ouse
  • Typical Range: 0.301 – 2.500 m
  • Drainage Area: 499 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Available (m³/s) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.23 m (EA at 23 Aug 22:30)
  • 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.

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
0.38
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,226 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +3% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.8%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
308 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
301 m³/s
31 Jan 1995
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 13.0246.906.821.355% (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 4%Grassland 43%Arable 6%Heath/scrub 44%Urban 1%

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

Velocity area station with four-path ultrasonics to monitor low flows. Replaced 27024 (closed 1980) from 1992.

More detail

The catchment

Typical responsive Pennine catchment. Mixed geology, mostly of moderate permeability - overlain by peat in headwaters and Boulder Clay in lower catchment. Mostly upland pasture with some afforestation (and considerable gripping). No known catchment changes.

The station

Velocity area station with cableway and four-path ultrasonic gauge to monitor low flows. Old road bridge d/s acts as control at high flows. Superseded 27024 (Richmond) from 1992. 27024 was closed in 1980.

How it measures flow

Ultrasonic equipment available to measure low flows but ratings provides a reasonable fit to available gaugings and is used as the primary data source. Two peak flow ratings across period of record.

Flow regime

Abstraction for MOD camp u/s; otherwise natural regime.

The flow record

Flows from 1991 reprocessed in 2002 - all flows reduced. New rating in 2014 (applied back to 2009) had no effect on high flows. 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
Gauging structure
Operating since
1992
Station datum
60.0 mAOD
Flow record
1992–2024 · 32 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1992
Hydrometric area
27
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Swale at Catterick Bridge flooding today?

The current level is 0.23m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Catterick Bridge?

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 River Swale at Catterick Bridge?

The typical range at this station is 0.30m to 2.50m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 2.50m 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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