Lower Trent and Erewash catchment
• North Muskham • Nottinghamshire • ID: 4022 • Level
(24m ago) • 1 reading/hr • 202 views
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Current Level
0.789 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.837 mASD
24h Min
0.770 mASD
Typical Range
0.80 - 3.30
mASD
Highest Recorded
3.95 mASD
9 Nov 2000
Since Oct 1969
Current level is 20% of this
Current Flow
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Recent Water Levels
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Prediction V2
Prediction Eris
Nimbus beta
Experimental model fusing soil moisture, river flow, groundwater and catchment
character. Shown with its calibrated 10–90% confidence band. 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.
Long Term
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Consecutive rainy days0 → 10+
Days Above Normal
This year vs 5-year monthly range
Recent Readings
Falling · -2 cm over 6h
23 Aug 22:45▼ -1 cm0.789 mASD
23 Aug 21:30▼ -0.2 cm0.799 mASD
23 Aug 21:15▼ -0.1 cm0.801 mASD
23 Aug 21:00▼ -0.1 cm0.802 mASD
23 Aug 20:45▬ steady0.803 mASD
23 Aug 20:30▬ steady0.803 mASD
23 Aug 20:15▬ steady0.803 mASD
23 Aug 20:00▬ steady0.803 mASD
23 Aug 19:45▬ steady0.803 mASD
23 Aug 19:30▬ steady0.803 mASD
23 Aug 19:15▬ steady0.803 mASD
23 Aug 19:00▬ steady0.803 mASD
23 Aug 18:45▬ steady0.803 mASD
23 Aug 18:30▬ steady0.803 mASD
23 Aug 18:15▬ steady0.803 mASD
23 Aug 18:00▬ steady0.803 mASD
23 Aug 17:45▼ -0.1 cm0.803 mASD
23 Aug 17:30▼ -0.2 cm0.804 mASD
23 Aug 17:15▼ -0.3 cm0.806 mASD
23 Aug 17:000.809 mASD
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2012 for the 21 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.3 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 North Muskham flood history.
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
🌊 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
0.50
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
789 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +4% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
9.9%
partly urbanised
Median Annual Flood
427 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
924 m³/s
9 Nov 2000
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.
Velocity area station built in 1968 and replaced by ultrasonic gauge in 1996: the station provides the lowest Trent gauge above the tidal limit and drains a highly industrial catchment with substantial flow modifications.
More detail
The catchment
Largest gauged catchment on Trent, with range of land use. Predominantly impervious owing to glacial clay and Mercia Mudstone, but some sandstone and limestone (Dove, Derwent and downstream of Nottingham).
The station
Velocity area station from 1968 to 1996. An ultrasonic gauge was installed in 1996. Highest transducer 7m. The station provides the most downstream gauge on the Fluvial Trent and lies immediately upstream of Cromwell Weir (Trent tidal limit).
How it measures flow
Single rating applied to period of record. Station flows form a hybrid record after August 1996 when the time of flight ultrasonic flow meter is used to measure flows below a stage of 3.0 metres. Out of bank flows are calculated from the rating above this stage when the transducers are bypassed on the right bank. Floodplain becomes active from a stage above 3.0 mASD.
Flow regime
Very substantial flow modifications owing to imports, WRW, cooling water and industrial usage. Reservoir(s) in catchment affect runoff. Regulation from surface water and/or ground water. Runoff reduced by public water supply abstraction and increased by effluent returns. Runoff influenced by groundwater abstraction/recharge.
The flow record
Station record at low flows prior to 1996 processed using rating equation and are less accurate than the Ultrasonic Record. At high flows the rating has been fit to gaugings up to a stage of 3.693 metres taken at Holme where the full river can be measured before the channel bypasses on the right bank. Events in 1977 and 2000 were gauged via a cableway but did not included bypass flow. The rating has carefully estimated the extent of bypass and is considered as accurate to the highest level observed in November 2000. Significant hysteresis is evident in the flow record between flows of 300 and 500 m3/s due to variable drowning of Cromwell Weir caused by tidal effects. The high flow rating has been fit to the rising limb gaugings so represents an over estimation of flows on the falling limb of the hydrograph at the flows. Hysteresis becomes less dominate at flows in excess of 500 m3/s. Corrections to the falling limb hydrograph have been made from 1996 onwards as the ultrasonic flow gauge shows the extent of hysteresis. Prior to 1996 no correction for hysteresis is possible on the falling limb of the flood hydrograph. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in August 2024 (WINFAP Files v13).
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Gauging structure
Operating since
1967
Station datum
4.9 mAOD
Flow record
1968–2024 · 56 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1966
Hydrometric area
28
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Trent at North Muskham flooding today?
The current level is 0.79m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at North Muskham?
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 Trent at North Muskham?
The typical range at this station is 0.80m to 3.30m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 3.30m 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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