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Current Level
0.160 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.160 mASD
24h Min
0.147 mASD
Typical Range
0.15 - 1.20
mASD
Highest Recorded
1.30 mASD
EA official record
1.30 in our data (since Nov 1981)
Current level is 12% 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.
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.
1 storm overflow is traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 900 m away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 1 reports not discharging.
Severn Trent Water · into Trent And Mersey Canal · 5.4 km away in a straight line · discharges into a canal
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now
10 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 →
🌊 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
0.58
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
826 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +5% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.9%
largely rural
Highest Daily Mean Flow
10.90 m³/s
26 Oct 2019 · 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.
A crump profile Flat V weir, which does suffer from some interference from groundwater pumping and sewage effluent.
More detail
The catchment
Low relief, agricultural catchment, draining Sherwood S'st in the North-east headwaters, Mercia Mudstone elsewhere. Overlain by river terrace gravels and alluvium in valleys.
The station
Crump profile Flat V weir, 5m wide, 1:10 cross-slopes, with crest tapping. In 2016 the site has undergone silt clearance and eal pass and pre-barrage fish pass were installed.
How it measures flow
Cableway is no longer in use - ADCP remote controlled gaugings carried out within measurement section and across adjacent floodplain on left bank during out of bank flows. In-channel weed growth is managed during the Summer months. Upstream railway bridge can cause skewed flow affecting gaugings across the flow range at times. Upstream right bank vegetation was cleared in 2024 to improve flow conditions.
Flow regime
Backs up from d/s bridge. Interference from gw pumping and sewage effluent, net effect of reduction in runoff. Baseflow maintained by glacial valley gravel.
The flow record
In 2016 during the conducted works, a gauge was installed at a nearby location, thus there are continuous measurements in the database.
Timing, not cause. Gauges can move together simply because the same rain fell on both.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Meece Brook at Shallowford flooding today?
The current level is 0.16m, which is within the typical range of 0.15 to 1.20m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.
Is the river level rising or falling at Shallowford?
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 Meece Brook at Shallowford?
The typical range at this station is 0.15m to 1.20m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.20m 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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