Swale, Ure, Nidd and Upper Ouse catchment
• Cundall • North Yorkshire • ID: F2311 • Level
(32m ago) • 2 readings/hr • 140 views
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Current Level
0.109 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.120 m
24h Min
0.109 m
Typical Range
0.09 - 0.26
m
Highest Recorded
2.48 m
EA official record
0.74 in our data (since Jan 1987)
Current level is 4% of this
🚽Sewage overflows nearby
Recent Water Levels
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EA forecast (official)
Prediction V2
Prediction Eris
Nimbus beta
Experimental model fusing soil moisture, river flow, groundwater and catchment
character. The shaded band is its 10–90% range, widened so that about 80% of recent outcomes fall inside it.
Under evaluation — not yet promoted, so treat as a second opinion.
River Flow
90 days
Daily mean discharge (m³/s) with the daily min–max band, from the EA Hydrology API. Flow is the volume of water passing the gauge — often a more direct flood signal than level.
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
None of the storm overflows FloodRadar holds is traced upstream of this gauge on the mapped river network. That is not the same as none: the map leaves out many small streams and culverts, so an overflow it cannot place may still drain here, and not every company publishes every overflow. Those nearby are listed below.
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 Unnamed Trib Of Ure · 5.3 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
75 spills · 990 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
6 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 →
In a typical year this gauge reaches its typical high of 0.26 m
on about 32 days.
This year so far: 23 days.
202623 days, 6 of them high · 6 highso far
202537 days, 3 of them high · 3 high
202453 days, 14 of them high · 14 high
202345 days, 13 of them high · 13 high
202220 days, 1 of them high · 1 high
202136 days, 11 of them high · 11 high
202042 days, 11 of them high · 11 high
201925 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
201821 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
20179 days
Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out.
The darker part is days above 0.98 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 13 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.4 km away).
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 Cundall flood history.
Flood areas linked to this gauge
Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 13 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.
🌊 Groundwater-fedSlow 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
0.65
groundwater-fed — slow & steady
Avg Annual Rainfall
662 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +5% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
1.8%
largely rural
Highest Daily Mean Flow
34.60 m³/s
28 Dec 2015 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
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.
Flat-V weir on Cundall Beck that drains to the Swale.
More detail
The catchment
A low-lying, relatively flat catchment - developed on Permo-Triassic sandstones - draining to the Swale. Land use: dominantly agricultural.
The station
Flat-V weir, 1:10 cross-slope (replaced the original sharp-edged weir).
How it measures flow
Weir drowns at ~0.7cumecs (below QMED), introducing significant uncertainty into higher flows.
Flow regime
Flow regime is largely natural. Flow augmentation scheme from boreholes tested late 1980s and early 1990s but never fully implemented. Impact on flows thought to be very limited.
The flow record
Similar low flows to the 1997 7-day minimum recorded in 1990 and 1995.
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Flat-V weir
Operating since
1986
Station datum
14.1 mAOD
Flow record
1987–2024 · 37 yrs · 100% complete
Hydrometric area
27
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
Frequently asked questions
Is the Cundall Beck at Bat Bridge flooding today?
The current level is 0.11m, which is within the typical range of 0.09 to 0.26m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Bat Bridge?
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 Cundall Beck at Bat Bridge?
The typical range at this station is 0.09m to 0.26m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.26m 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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