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Current Level
0.634 mASD
▼ Easing
24h Max
0.677 mASD
24h Min
0.608 mASD
Typical Range
0.58 - 1.52
mASD
Highest Recorded
2.68 mASD
EA official record
2.68 in our data (since Jan 1969)
Current level is 24% of this
Current Flow
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🚽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.
Yoxall FLOW (9012) — flow at this site
7 days
A separate gauge 19.9 m from this one at the same site, shown here for context.
Its readings are its own and are never merged with this page's.
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.
99 storm overflows are traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 6.2 km away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 96 report not discharging, and for 3 the monitor is offline or has not reported, so their status is not known.
Severn Trent Water · into Tributary Of Full Brook · 5.7 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
13 spills · 70 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
2 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 1.52 m
on about 38 days.
This year so far: 33 days.
202633 days, 8 of them high · 8 highso far
202523 days, 5 of them high · 5 high
202456 days, 16 of them high · 16 high
202350 days, 17 of them high · 17 high
202218 days, 1 of them high · 1 high
202127 days, 10 of them high · 10 high
202038 days, 5 of them high · 5 high
201977 days, 12 of them high · 12 high
201827 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
201724 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 2.14 m, the level this gauge tops only a few days a year.
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.
Flood areas linked to this gauge
Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 10 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.
🌊 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 Daily Mean Flow
124 m³/s
5 Dec 1960 · 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.
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).
Timing, not cause. Gauges can move together simply because the same rain fell on both.
Frequently asked questions
Is the River Trent at Kings Bromley flooding today?
The current level is 0.63m, 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 falling slightly. The chart above shows the last 12 hours of measurements by default (up to 7 days), 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. Only about 5.2mm of rain has fallen nearby in the last 7 days, so the flow is being sustained mainly by groundwater. 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 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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Nov 2012 Measuring section during November 2012 event
16 Sep 1996 Looking upstream from station
Looking downstream to gauging station