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Current Level
0.604 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.636 mASD
24h Min
0.604 mASD
Typical Range
0.58 - 1.52
mASD
Highest Recorded
2.68 mASD
27 Jun 2007
Since Jan 1969
Current level is 23% of this
Current Flow
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Recent Water Levels
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Prediction V2
Prediction Eris
Nimbus beta
Experimental model fusing soil moisture, river flow, groundwater and catchment
character. Shown with its calibrated 10–90% confidence band. 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.
Long Term
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Consecutive rainy days0 → 10+
Days Above Normal
This year vs 5-year monthly range
Recent Readings
Falling · -3 cm over 6h
23 Aug 22:45▼ -0.4 cm0.604 mASD
23 Aug 21:30▬ steady0.608 mASD
23 Aug 21:15▼ -0.1 cm0.608 mASD
23 Aug 21:00▼ -0.1 cm0.609 mASD
23 Aug 20:45▼ -0.1 cm0.610 mASD
23 Aug 20:30▼ -0.1 cm0.611 mASD
23 Aug 20:15▼ -0.1 cm0.612 mASD
23 Aug 20:00▼ -0.1 cm0.613 mASD
23 Aug 19:45▼ -0.1 cm0.614 mASD
23 Aug 19:30▼ -0.2 cm0.615 mASD
23 Aug 19:15▼ -0.1 cm0.617 mASD
23 Aug 19:00▼ -0.2 cm0.618 mASD
23 Aug 18:45▼ -0.2 cm0.620 mASD
23 Aug 18:30▼ -0.3 cm0.622 mASD
23 Aug 18:15▼ -0.3 cm0.625 mASD
23 Aug 18:00▼ -0.4 cm0.628 mASD
23 Aug 17:45▼ -0.1 cm0.632 mASD
23 Aug 17:30▬ steady0.633 mASD
23 Aug 17:15▬ steady0.633 mASD
23 Aug 17:000.633 mASD
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Flood history near this gauge
Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2007 for the 10 flood
areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.5 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 King's Bromley flood history.
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 responseA 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
0.52
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
785 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +3% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
8.1%
partly urbanised
Median Annual Flood
65.34 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
124 m³/s
5 Dec 1960
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.
Ultrasonic gauge on the upper Trent, previously an electromagnetic and velocity area station.
More detail
The catchment
Large diverse catchment with Coal Measures in the headwaters and Triassic Mudstone and Permain and Triassic Sandstones elsewhere. Approx 30% Boulder Clay and Till deposits with large gravel terraces providing storage alongside the main river. Mixed farming, sand and gravel extraction, industrial development.
The station
Two velocity-area sites were used prior to December 1994. The first (just d/s of bridge) opened 1959 and closed after river re-grading in 1976, the second and current site (50 m d/s of original site) began in 1974. Replaced with an electromagnetic gauge in December 1994. Following failure of the electromagnetic gauge, an ultrasonic gauge was installed in 2011. Located just downstream of a major road bridge and a smaller single track arched bridge.
How it measures flow
Severe weed growth requires summer rating adjustments. Cableway measured in-channel flows (some eddying below bridge, can cause reversal of flows at cableway). Cableway bypassed by highest flows. Multiple ratings applied across period of record, revised in 2016 and 2024. Many gaugings, but wide scatter as a result of weed growth in summer. Current rating is a better fit to out of bank flows, but is not applied to earlier record.
Flow regime
Significant modification to flows including reservoir(s) in catchment and regulation from surface water and/or ground water. Runoff is influenced by groundwater abstraction/recharge and effluent returns, and is reduced by industrial/agricultural/public water supply abstraction.
The flow record
Training bank built on the right banks in 1986 prevents out-of-bank flows re-joining river just upstream of gauging station. Large floods can still spill out-of-bank upstream of the training banks on the right bank, and bypass the station, flowing through two flood relief culverts under the road. Peak flows rejected as unrepresentative of the catchment from 1980-1987 because interpolation of flow data did not providing accurate representation of on-site conditions. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in August 2024 (WINFAP Files v13).
How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).
Gauge type
Ultrasonic
Operating since
1959
Station datum
56.4 mAOD
Flow record
1959–2024 · 65 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1959
Hydrometric area
28
Measured by
Environment Agency
Nearby Groundwater
Soil Moisture
Possible storm-overflow correlation
🚽 Storm overflows on this river
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Trent at Kings Bromley flooding today?
The current level is 0.60m, which is within the typical range of 0.58 to 1.52m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Kings Bromley?
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.
Why is the level slowly falling?
When little or no rain has fallen for a while, a river level gradually drops as the water stored in the ground and soil drains away with nothing to replace it. This is called baseflow recession and is normal in dry spells. A gentle decline like this is expected and is not a sign of a problem — downstream gauges often recede a little faster than headwaters further upstream, and levels recover once rain returns.
What is a normal level for the River Trent at Kings Bromley?
The typical range at this station is 0.58m to 1.52m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.52m 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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📮 Flood risk by postcode near this gauge
Postcodes within 5 km with properties in the Environment Agency’s rivers-and-sea flood-risk bands:
Nov 2012 Measuring section during November 2012 event
16 Sep 1996 Looking upstream from station
Looking downstream to gauging station
