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Current Level
0.193 m
▼ Falling (-3cm/hr)
24h Max
0.370 m
24h Min
0.150 m
Typical Range
0.15 - 3.32
m
Highest Recorded
6.27 m
EA official record
6.27 in our data (since May 1979)
Current level is 3% 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 6 Oct (2 days behind — the EA publishes each day's mean a day or two after it ends; unchecked, provisional)via EA Hydrology
Storm overflows whose water reaches this gauge on the mapped river network, nearest first by distance along the river. The status is each water company's monitor: it says whether an overflow is discharging, not how much or what it contains.
2 storm overflows are traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 10.3 km away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 2 report not discharging.
Yorkshire Water · into Unnamed Trib Of River Kyle · 5.7 km away in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water
53 spills · 94 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
9 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 3.32 m
on about 27 days.
This year so far: 22 days.
202622 days, 4 of them high · 4 highso far
202527 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
202437 days, 10 of them high · 10 high
202346 days, 11 of them high · 11 high
202213 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
202132 days, 11 of them high · 11 high
202031 days, 14 of them high · 14 high
201917 days
201814 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
20170 days patchy data
Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out, so a year marked patchy may have run high more often than shown.
The darker part is days above 4.50 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 9 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.0 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 Newton on Ouse flood history.
Flood areas linked to this gauge
Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 9 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.
🌊 Mixed responseA 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
660 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +4% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
1.0%
largely rural
Highest Daily Mean Flow
260 m³/s
29 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.
Land Cover (2023)
Woodland 4%Grassland 32%Arable 61%Urban 3%
Arable 71% → 61% since 1990
Flow affected by: groundwater abstraction.
Photos
Gauging-station photographs from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).
Flat-V weir gauging a flat rural catchment near York.
More detail
The catchment
Flat, rural catchment draining part of Vale of York. Bedrock geology is primarily Sandstones and mudstones with superficial deposits of sands and gravels, moderate to high permeability.
The station
Flat V gauging weir, built 1978, gauging rural catchment close to confluence with the River Ouse. Concrete flat V weir 6m wide with 1:10 side slopes and vertical sheet-piled wing walls. Instrument kiosk on left bank with upstream and downstream level recorders in stilling wells. Eel tiles added to weir face in 2014.
How it measures flow
Weir drowns in high flows due to backwater from the Ouse confluence a short distance downstream, flows above 1.6 m3/s should be discounted. Theoretical modular weir rating supported by check gaugings.
Flow regime
Relatively slow response from a flat, moderately permeable, agricultural catchment. Some artificial influences from agricultural abstraction and sewage treatment works discharges, slight net increase to natural flows.
The flow record
Missing data 02/07/2014 - 13/07/2014 due to installation of eel tiles, unable to infill gap.
Timing, not cause. Gauges can move together simply because the same rain fell on both.
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Kyle at Newton on Ouse flooding today?
The current level is 0.19m, which is within the typical range of 0.15 to 3.32m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Newton on Ouse?
Based on the most recent readings, the level is currently falling. The chart above shows the last 12 hours of measurements by default (up to 7 days), updated roughly every 15 minutes.
Why is the level slowly falling?
When little or no rain has fallen for a while, a river level gradually drops as the water stored in the ground and soil drains away with nothing to replace it. This is called baseflow recession and is normal in dry spells. Only about 9.2mm of rain has fallen nearby in the last 7 days, so the flow is being sustained mainly by groundwater. A gentle decline like this is expected and is not a sign of a problem — downstream gauges often recede a little faster than headwaters further upstream, and levels recover once rain returns.
What is a normal level for the River Kyle at Newton on Ouse?
The typical range at this station is 0.15m to 3.32m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 3.32m 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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