Don and Rother catchment
• Tinsley • South Yorkshire • ID: F0605 • Level
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Current Level
0.339 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.354 m
24h Min
0.332 m
Typical Range
0.36 - 2.05
m
Highest Recorded
4.68 m
EA official record
4.68 in our data (since Feb 1968)
Current level is 7% of this
🚽Sewage overflows nearby
Recent Water Levels
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EA forecast (official)
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Prediction Eris
Nimbus beta
Experimental model fusing soil moisture, river flow, groundwater and catchment
character. The shaded band is its 10–90% range, widened so that about 80% of recent outcomes fall inside it.
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.
Flow Data: Daily mean flow (m³/s) to 8 Oct (2 days behind — the EA publishes each day's mean a day or two after it ends; unchecked, provisional)via EA Hydrology
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.
89 storm overflows are traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 1.4 km away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 86 report not discharging, and for 3 the monitor is offline or has not reported, so their status is not known.
Yorkshire Water · into Not Matched In Ea Consents Database · 600 m away in a straight line · several watercourses close by, nothing to choose between them
10 spills · 10 hours in 2025
Status unknown — the live feed has not updated for 156 d 7 h
Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of The River Rother · 1.9 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
17 spills · 71 hours in 2025
Status unknown — the live feed has not updated for 10 d 4 h
39 more within 6 km whose connection is not known.
34 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 →
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 Tinsley flood history.
Flood areas linked to this gauge
Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 32 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.
🌊 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
0.42
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,062 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +5% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
13%
partly urbanised
Median Annual Flood
88.57 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
185 m³/s
25 Jun 2007 · 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.
Broad-crested, skewed, semi-circular masonry weir with long record. Heavily reservoired catchment draining the East Pennines.
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The catchment
Catchment draining the eastern flank of the Pennines, to Sheffield. Mixed geology including Upper Carboniferous Millstone Grit, Middle and Lower Coal Measures sandstones and shales with a generally easterly dip. Moorland headwaters used for rough grazing contrast with the heavily urbanised (up to a fifth of the catchment) lower catchment (now less industrial); mixed rural in mid-catchment. Ongoing increase in area of development during period of record.
The station
Broad-crested, skewed, semi-circular masonry weir (44.5m wide) with sloping upstream face. Upstream level recorder since 1921 originally poor due to limited range and position at foundry intake, now located on inside bend in river, upstream of the weir. Cableway installed 1961 located 100m d/s destroyed in 1989, new cableway installed u/s in November 1997. Hut and contents stolen, 1985, replaced 1986. Fish pass installed November 2012.
How it measures flow
Rarely bypassed or drowned. Current meter gauging previously from footbridge, downstream of weir. Rated by a current meter from a cableway. Revised rating applied in December 2014 back to November 2012 following fish pass construction. This rating alters the lower limb (below 0.52m stage) to compensate for the fish pass. Four peak flow ratings applied across period of record. Good fit to gaugings. In 1975 Flood Studies Report grade A2 to 2m and B above (overall grade A2). Current grade A1 to 2m and A2 above.
Flow regime
Fast responding catchment with a large urban component near to the outlet. Heavily reservoired with estimated 40% of catchment draining through around 23 reservoirs. Variation in Don Valley reservoir content has very significant effect on overall percentage runoff from the catchment in flood. Addition of water from borehole to Scout Dyke reservoir group, intermittent discharge from South Yorkshire Navigation and sewage treatment effluent discharge. Compensation forms a large part of baseflow. Significant net loss of water from the catchment with abstraction to Yorkshire Grid.
The flow record
Data is available from 21/11/1956. Flows from 1982 reprocessed in 2002 and 2014. Bypassed in June 2007 event. June 2007 peak flow is estimated 259 cumecs and stage 4.68m (wrack survey). Flows reprocessed from 2/11/2012 in 2015 after new rating developed for fish pass resulting in a slightly lower flow estimate. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in October 2018 (WINFAP Files v7).
Timing, not cause. Gauges can move together simply because the same rain fell on both.
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Don at Hadfields flooding today?
The current level is 0.34m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Hadfields?
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 Don at Hadfields?
The typical range at this station is 0.36m to 2.05m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 2.05m 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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6 Nov 2012 Weir and fish pass from left bank
6 Nov 2012 Looking upstream to weir and fish pass, from left bank
6 Nov 2012 Looking at weir and fish pass from right bank
6 Nov 2012 Floating debris boom at fish pass entrance
