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Current Level
0.243 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.268 mASD
24h Min
0.243 mASD
Typical Range
0.26 - 0.79
mASD
Highest Recorded
2.83 mASD
EA official record
2.37 in our data (since Jun 1998)
Current level is 9% of this
🚽Sewage overflows nearby
Recent Water Levels
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1 day
EA forecast (official)
Prediction V2
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 6 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.
15 storm overflows are traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 2.7 km away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 15 report not discharging.
Severn Trent Water · into River Stour · 3.0 km away in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it
4 spills · 4 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
6 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 →
In a typical year this gauge reaches its typical high of 0.79 m
on about 40 days.
This year so far: 16 days.
202616 days, 2 of them high · 2 highso far
202529 days, 4 of them high · 4 high
202447 days, 7 of them high · 7 high
202353 days, 6 of them high · 6 high
202225 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
202142 days, 7 of them high · 7 high
202054 days, 6 of them high · 6 high
201958 days, 7 of them high · 7 high
201823 days
201730 days, 1 of them high · 1 high
Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out.
The darker part is days above 1.89 m, the level this gauge tops only a few days a year.
Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2008 for the 15 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.1 km away).
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 Denstone flood history.
Flood areas linked to this gauge
Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 15 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
0.48
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,009 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +6% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
2.2%
largely rural
Highest Daily Mean Flow
67.90 m³/s
6 Nov 2000 · 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.
Triangular profile Flat Vee weir set within vertical wing walls, with brick gauge house and cableway opened in 1998.
More detail
The catchment
The River Churnet originates approximately 30km North of Quixhill gauging station on the Middle Hills (7km North East of Leek, Staffordshire). The river flows in a south-westerly direction where it flows into Tittesworth Reservoir. The River Churnet then continues in a southerly direction through Staffordshire.
The station
Station was built in 1998 and is located on the late Joseph Cyril Bamford Estate (JCB) near the village of Rocester.
How it measures flow
A Flat V triangular profile weir with vertical side walls provides a hydraulic control to measure discharge. Cableway no longer in use - remote controlled ADCP gaugings carried out. During out of bank flows in extreme flood events, alternative locations further upstream have to be used as the adjacent floodplain area is not measurable and the main river section unreachable.
Flow regime
The Churnet is generally baseflow dominated and can rise quite rapidly following heavy rainfall, owing to the upland nature of the catchment. It is a very silty river often with high sediment load except at the lowest of flows.
The flow record
Complete period of record flow. Notable peak events in November 2000 and October 2019.
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Gauging structure
Operating since
1998
Station datum
89.7 mAOD
Flow record
2005–2024 · 19 yrs · 100% complete
Hydrometric area
28
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
Rain upstream
This gauge has no rain model of its own, but it usually follows Ilam: when about 6mm of rain falls near Ilam in 12h, this gauge usually starts rising about 3 hours later.
Timing, not cause. Gauges can move together simply because the same rain fell on both.
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Churnet at Quixhill flooding today?
The current level is 0.24m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Quixhill?
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 Churnet at Quixhill?
The typical range at this station is 0.26m to 0.79m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.79m 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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