🌊 Fairly flashyResponds 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
0.45
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,791 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +7% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.1%
largely rural
Highest Daily Mean Flow
132 m³/s
22 Dec 2012 · 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 7%Grassland 92%Arable 1%Urban 1%
Grassland 85% → 92% since 1990
About this gauge
Velocity area station at road bridge 800m upstream of confluence with River Exe.
More detail
The catchment
Drains high moorland (Exmoor) in west Somerset. Steep, wooded valley sides in lower catchment.
The station
Velocity area station at road bridge 800m upstream of confluence with River Exe.
How it measures flow
Natural bed control at low flows with channel control at medium/high flows. Unstable relationship below ~1m (~25 cumecs). Rating reviewed in 2012 and modelled stage-discharge relationship applied to historic record above this level.
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Velocity–area
Operating since
1968
Station datum
128.0 mAOD
Flow record
1967–2024 · 57 yrs · 87% complete
Hydrometric area
45
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Frequently asked questions
Is BRUSHFORD flooding today?
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How often is this river level data updated?
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