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Hinkley Point

Name: Hinkley Point River Level Data
Creator: FloodRadar

Tide 🌊 Tidal

England - South Coast catchment • Stolford • Somerset • ID: E72539 • Level

This gauge is tidally influenced — levels rise and fall with each tide, so rapid changes here are normal and don't necessarily indicate flooding.

09:15 (1h ago) • 3 readings/hr • 176 views

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Current Level

3.158 mAOD

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24h Max

5.893 mAOD

24h Min

-4.589 mAOD

Typical Range

Highest Recorded

7.45 mAOD

EA official record

A 11.84 reading (17 Jan 2024) sits in our unverified raw history and is not treated as the record

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Recent Water Levels

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Flood predictions aren't generated for tidal gauges — their levels are driven by the tide, not by catchment rainfall, so the forecast models would have no skill here.

Recent Readings

Rising · +609 cm over 7h

10 Oct 09:15 ▼▼ -57 cm 3.158 mAOD

10 Oct 09:00 ▼▼ -99 cm 3.727 mAOD

10 Oct 08:30 ▼▼ -48 cm 4.721 mAOD

10 Oct 08:15 ▼▼ -27 cm 5.204 mAOD

10 Oct 08:00 ▼▼ -42 cm 5.474 mAOD

10 Oct 07:30 ▲ +4 cm 5.893 mAOD

10 Oct 07:15 ▲▲ +7 cm 5.854 mAOD

10 Oct 07:00 ▲▲ +46 cm 5.782 mAOD

10 Oct 06:30 ▲▲ +40 cm 5.318 mAOD

10 Oct 06:15 ▲▲ +150 cm 4.919 mAOD

10 Oct 05:30 ▲▲ +57 cm 3.418 mAOD

10 Oct 05:15 ▲▲ +54 cm 2.853 mAOD

10 Oct 05:00 ▲▲ +64 cm 2.315 mAOD

10 Oct 04:45 ▲▲ +145 cm 1.677 mAOD

10 Oct 04:15 ▲▲ +114 cm 0.231 mAOD

10 Oct 03:45 ▲▲ +56 cm -0.906 mAOD

10 Oct 03:30 ▲▲ +61 cm -1.467 mAOD

10 Oct 03:15 ▲▲ +42 cm -2.079 mAOD

10 Oct 03:00 ▲▲ +43 cm -2.495 mAOD

10 Oct 02:45 -2.929 mAOD

Station Details

Monitoring Station: Hinkley Point
Watercourse: Tide
Nearest Town: Stolford
County: Somerset
Nearest reservoir: Ashford (8.3 km) · 56.6% full (as of 31 Aug 2026)
Coordinates: 51°12'38"N 3°7'53"W (51.210605, -3.131326)
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Date Opened: 10 May 2012
Status: Active
Station Type: Tidal / coastal station

Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive

Station Reference: E72539
RLOI id: 3062 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
EA Gauge ID: E72539-level-tidal_level-Mean-15_min-mAOD
Parameter: Level
Unit: mAOD
Typical rise rate: 248 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
Typical data delay: ~37 min (measured reading→publication lag)
Tidal: 🌊 Yes — levels follow the tide
Lock / structure: No
Catchment Area: England - South Coast
EA Cross-check: 3.16 mAOD (EA at 10 Oct 09:15)

Geographic coordinates may reflect the access point for the gauge, and not the precise location in the watercourse that it is taking readings from.

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2014 for the 9 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 4.2 km away).

16flood warnings 17flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 17 Feb 2022 — Somerset coast at Burnham-on-Sea, seafront properties

Year by year

Year	Warnings	Alerts
2026	0	4
2025	0	4
2024	0	5
2023	0	3
2022	1	1
2020	5	0
2018	2	0
2014	8	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 Stolford 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.

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Somerset coast at Burnham-on-Sea, properties located behind the seafront9.9 km away

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