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Lovington

Brue
Parrett, Brue and West Somerset Streams catchment • Lovington • Somerset • ID: 52207 • Level
(30m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 120 views

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Current Level
0.068 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.072 m
24h Min
0.067 m
Typical Range
0.07 - 2.16
m
Highest Recorded
4.45 m
EA official record
4.20 in our data (since Nov 2012)
Current level is 2% of this
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Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Steady over 6h
24 Aug 00:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.068 m
23 Aug 23:45 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.069 m
23 Aug 23:30 ▬ steady 0.068 m
23 Aug 23:15 ▬ steady 0.068 m
23 Aug 23:00 ▬ steady 0.068 m
23 Aug 22:30 ▬ steady 0.068 m
23 Aug 21:30 ▬ steady 0.068 m
23 Aug 21:15 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.068 m
23 Aug 21:00 ▬ steady 0.067 m
23 Aug 20:45 ▬ steady 0.067 m
23 Aug 20:30 ▬ steady 0.067 m
23 Aug 20:15 ▬ steady 0.067 m
23 Aug 20:00 ▬ steady 0.067 m
23 Aug 19:45 ▬ steady 0.067 m
23 Aug 19:30 ▬ steady 0.067 m
23 Aug 19:15 ▬ steady 0.067 m
23 Aug 19:00 ▬ steady 0.067 m
23 Aug 18:45 ▬ steady 0.067 m
23 Aug 18:30 ▬ steady 0.067 m
23 Aug 18:15 0.067 m

Rainfall & Weather

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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).

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

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2026 3 1
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.

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Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Lovington
  • Watercourse: River Brue
  • Nearest Town: Lovington
  • County: Somerset
  • Nearest reservoir: Sutton Bingham (20.7 km) · 79.8% full (as of 29 Jun 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
  • Station Reference: 52207
  • EA Gauge ID: 52207-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: Parrett, Brue and West Somerset Streams
  • Typical Range: 0.074 – 2.160 m
  • Drainage Area: 135 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Available (m³/s) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.07 m (EA at 23 Aug 23:45)
  • 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.

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 Recorded Flow
45.50 m³/s
30 May 1979
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 0.07m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very 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 7 days of measurements, 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 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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