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Easby

Leven
Tees catchment • Easby • North Yorkshire • ID: F3808 • Level
(37m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 146 views

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Current Level
0.093 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.106 m
24h Min
0.093 m
Typical Range
0.11 - 0.70
m
Highest Recorded
1.03 m
EA official record
1.03 in our data (since Jan 1982)
Current level is 9% of this
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Steady over 6h
08 Oct 10:15 ▬ steady 0.093 m
08 Oct 10:00 ▬ steady 0.093 m
08 Oct 09:45 ▬ steady 0.093 m
08 Oct 09:30 ▬ steady 0.093 m
08 Oct 09:00 ▬ steady 0.093 m
08 Oct 08:45 ▬ steady 0.093 m
08 Oct 08:30 ▬ steady 0.093 m
08 Oct 08:00 ▬ steady 0.093 m
08 Oct 07:45 ▬ steady 0.093 m
08 Oct 07:30 ▬ steady 0.093 m
08 Oct 07:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.093 m
08 Oct 06:45 ▬ steady 0.094 m
08 Oct 06:30 ▬ steady 0.094 m
08 Oct 06:15 ▬ steady 0.094 m
08 Oct 06:00 ▬ steady 0.094 m
08 Oct 05:45 ▬ steady 0.094 m
08 Oct 05:15 ▬ steady 0.094 m
08 Oct 05:00 ▬ steady 0.094 m
08 Oct 04:45 ▬ steady 0.094 m
08 Oct 04:15 0.094 m

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Easby
  • Watercourse: River Leven
  • Nearest Town: Easby
  • County: North Yorkshire
  • Coordinates: 54°28'13"N 1°5'56"W (54.470289, -1.098857)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 1 May 1971
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: F3808
  • RLOI id: 8071 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: F3808-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: Tees
  • Typical Range: 0.106 – 0.700 m
  • Drainage Area: 15 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: 0.09 m (EA at 8 Oct 10:00)
  • 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

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

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 River Esk · 1.1 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
46 spills · 74 hours in 2025
No live feed for this overflow
💧
Northumbrian Water · into The West Beck - Leven · 5.6 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
2 spills · 6 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last

10 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

This gauge rarely reaches its typical high of 0.70 m: 0 days since 2017. This year so far: 0 days.

2026 0 days so far
2025 0 days
2024 0 days
2023 0 days
2022 0 days
2021 0 days
2020 0 days
2019 0 days
2018 0 days
2017 0 days

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

Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2010 for the 6 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 2.6 km away).

1flood warning 62flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 21 Nov 2016 — River Leven at lower Great Ayton

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2026 0 2
2025 0 5
2024 0 10
2023 0 5
2021 0 2
2020 0 4
2019 0 3
2017 0 3
2016 1 6
2015 0 4
2014 0 1
2013 0 8
2012 0 7
2010 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 Easby flood history.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 6 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.

Catchment Character

🌊 Mixed response A balance of quick runoff and slower groundwater baseflow.

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
0.52
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
892 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +4% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.4%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
5.38 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
10.10 m³/s
7 Nov 2000 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.2070.5680.1320.0495% (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 21%Grassland 43%Arable 8%Heath/scrub 28%
Grassland 38% → 43% since 1990

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

Flat-V Crump profile weir with mild steel crest. Station closed in 1996 but reopened for flood warning purposes in 2003.

More detail

The catchment

Steep natural catchment draining the northern margin of the Cleveland Hills, with predominantly rough pasture and woodland. Geology is Upper Lias rock (blue-grey clays and ironstones) overlain by Lower Oolite sandstone series, with sand, gravel and Boulder Clay in valleys. Grazing and arable land. No known catchment changes.

The station

Flat-V Crump profile weir (5m wide) with mild steel crest in rectangular concrete river section. Station closed 31/12/1996 but re-opened in February 2003 for flood warning. Stokesley (d/s) has been subject to significant flooding from the Leven in the past (the last being in 1976), and historic flood marks, recorded at the police station there, give some support for the high growth rate observed in the AMAX series.

How it measures flow

Fast approach could occasionally give super-critical flow. Flows well contained up to 1.13m and have never been recorded above bankfull. The maximum gauged flow is 2.55 cumecs, well below Qmed. Theoretical daily flow rating by Wallingford Hydraulics Research, checked at low flows by current meter. One peak flow rating applied across period of record.

Flow regime

No known artificial influences.

The flow record

Gap in record Jan 1997 to Feb 2003 due to station closure. Temporary gauge at Low Easby (Nov 1996 to Feb 2005) has some overlap with Easby record but not currently used to infill missing peaks. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in October 2018 (WINFAP Files v7).

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
1971
Station datum
101.3 mAOD
Flow record
1971–2024 · 53 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1971
Hydrometric area
25
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Leven at Easby flooding today?

The current level is 0.09m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Easby?

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 Leven at Easby?

The typical range at this station is 0.11m to 0.70m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.70m 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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