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Lovington

Brue
Parrett, Brue and West Somerset Streams catchment • Lovington • Somerset • ID: 52207 • Level
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Current Level
0.085 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.085 mASD
24h Min
0.073 mASD
Typical Range
0.07 - 2.16
mASD
Highest Recorded
4.45 mASD
EA official record
4.20 in our data (since Nov 2012)
Current level is 2% of this
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Rising · +0.3 cm over 7h
08 Oct 01:30 ▬ steady 0.085 mASD
08 Oct 01:00 ▬ steady 0.085 mASD
08 Oct 00:30 ▬ steady 0.085 mASD
08 Oct 00:15 ▬ steady 0.085 mASD
08 Oct 00:00 ▬ steady 0.085 mASD
07 Oct 23:45 ▬ steady 0.085 mASD
07 Oct 23:30 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.085 mASD
07 Oct 22:30 ▬ steady 0.084 mASD
07 Oct 22:00 ▬ steady 0.084 mASD
07 Oct 21:45 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.084 mASD
07 Oct 21:30 ▬ steady 0.083 mASD
07 Oct 21:15 ▬ steady 0.083 mASD
07 Oct 21:00 ▬ steady 0.083 mASD
07 Oct 20:45 ▬ steady 0.083 mASD
07 Oct 20:30 ▬ steady 0.083 mASD
07 Oct 20:15 ▬ steady 0.083 mASD
07 Oct 20:00 ▬ steady 0.083 mASD
07 Oct 19:30 ▬ steady 0.083 mASD
07 Oct 19:15 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.083 mASD
07 Oct 19:00 0.082 mASD

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Lovington
  • Watercourse: River Brue
  • Nearest Town: Lovington
  • County: Somerset
  • Nearest reservoir: Sutton Bingham (20.7 km) · 44.6% full (as of 31 Aug 2026)
  • Coordinates: 51°5'1"N 2°35'13"W (51.083697, -2.586936)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 1 Oct 1964
  • Status: Active (This gauge is affected by abstraction and/or flow augmentation which may cause rapid fluctuations in)
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: 52207
  • RLOI id: 3057 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: 52207-level-stage-i-15_min-mASD
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: mASD
  • 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: Parrett, Brue and West Somerset Streams
  • Typical Range: 0.074 – 2.160 mASD
  • Drainage Area: 135 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 mASD (EA at 8 Oct 01:45)
  • 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.

Nearby Stations

Gauges connected to this river, and others nearby. A distance “by river” follows the river on the map; any other is in a straight line.

Connected upstream

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

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.

4 storm overflows are traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 7.3 km away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 4 report not discharging.

💧
Wessex Water · into River Alham · 7.3 km upstream along the river
26 spills · 269 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Wessex Water · into River Alham · 11.5 km upstream along the river
48 spills · 161 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Wessex Water · into River Alham · 11.5 km upstream along the river
19 spills · 189 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
💧
Wessex Water · into River Brue · 13.0 km upstream along the river
8 spills · 111 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last

Nearby, connection not known

Within 6 km in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water passes this gauge.

💧
Wessex Water · into Tributary Of River Brue · 1.6 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
17 spills · 154 hours in 2025
Monitor offline: it cannot say whether it is discharging
💧
Wessex Water · into River Cary · 3.7 km away in a straight line · not connected to this gauge on the river map
22 spills · 274 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
💧
Wessex Water · into Tributary Of Cunlease Rhyne · 4.0 km away in a straight line · several watercourses close by, nothing to choose between them
45 spills · 806 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
💧
Wessex Water · 4.4 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
1 spill · 0 hours in 2025
No live feed for this overflow
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Wessex Water · into Trib Of River Carey(Via Drain) · 4.6 km away in a straight line · reaches the river through a sewer or culvert
23 spills · 249 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
💧
Wessex Water · into Trib Of Coxbridge Brook · 5.4 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
2 spills · 7 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
💧
Wessex Water · into Trib Of The River Cary · 5.6 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
23 spills · 277 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
💧
Wessex Water · into River Cam · 5.9 km away in a straight line · not connected to this gauge on the river map
44 spills · 335 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last

4 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

In a typical year this gauge reaches its typical high of 2.16 m on about 7 days. This year so far: 3 days.

2026 3 days, 1 of them high · 1 high so far
2025 9 days, 8 of them high · 8 high
2024 11 days, 7 of them high · 7 high
2023 14 days, 10 of them high · 10 high
2022 2 days, 1 of them high · 1 high
2021 4 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
2020 9 days, 3 of them high · 3 high
2019 8 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
2018 6 days, 4 of them high · 4 high
2017 2 days

Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out. The darker part is days above 2.52 m, the level this gauge tops only a few days a year.

Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2012 for the 7 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 4.1 km away).

80flood warnings 5flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 27 Jan 2026 — River Brue and Glastonbury Millstream from Lovington to Highbridge, low lying properties

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2026 3 2
2025 8 3
2024 15 0
2023 13 0
2021 2 0
2020 4 0
2019 4 0
2018 3 0
2017 2 0
2016 7 0
2015 1 0
2014 5 0
2013 2 0
2012 11 0

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 Lovington flood history.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 7 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
0.53
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
915 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +4% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
1.1%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
37.57 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
45.50 m³/s
30 May 1979 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 1.987.130.9930.2595% (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 6%Grassland 79%Arable 12%Urban 4%
Grassland 87% → 79% since 1990

Flow affected by: surface-water abstraction.

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

Crump profile weir for low flows and rated section. Bruton Dam flood storage reservoir was built in catchment in 1983 after extensive flooding in the town.

More detail

The catchment

Headwaters fed by Mendip and Salisbury Plain springs. Geology comprises Oxford Clay and Great Oolite in the upper catchment and Yeovil Sands and Inferior Oolite in the lower-catchment. Land use is predominantly rural with very little urbanisation.

The station

Station is located west of Lovington and was opened in 1964. Crump profile weir for low flows, crest 6.71m broad, then rated section for flows > 2.2 cumecs.

How it measures flow

Downstream summer weed growth affects the stability of the stage-discharge relationship. Issues with gravel accumulation u/s. Section is deep and contains all but extreme peaks. Lower section is rating for theoretical weir; reliable extension of rating to bankfull (3.9m stage) but no data to allow extension beyond this, although all but extreme peaks contained in deep section. Station rebuilt in 1998, no alteration to the section adjacent to the weir. Rating reviewed in 01/2001. One rating applied across period of record. Reliable extension of rating to bankfull but no data to allow extension beyond this. Reasonable fit to gaugings. POR maximum flow of 142 cumecs in 05/1979 is derived from the latest rating, but subject to considerable uncertainty owing to extrapolation.

Flow regime

Natural regime. Bruton Dam flood storage reservoir was built in 1983 after extensive flooding in the town in 1968, 1979 and 1982. It drains 21% of the catchment, much of it being the more upland and fast-responding areas.

The flow record

No daily mean flows between 27/7/98 and 1/11/98. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in September 2019 (WINFAP Files v8).

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
Crump weir
Operating since
1964
Station datum
19.8 mAOD
Flow record
1964–2024 · 60 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1964
Hydrometric area
52
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Brue at Lovington flooding today?

The current level is 0.09m, which is within the typical range of 0.07 to 2.16m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Lovington?

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 Brue at Lovington?

The typical range at this station is 0.07m to 2.16m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 2.16m 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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