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Beck Bridge

Kennett
Cam and Ely Ouse (Including South Level) catchment • Isleham • Suffolk • ID: E21119 • Level
(32m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 122 views

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Current Level
-0.109 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
-0.108 mASD
24h Min
-0.109 mASD
Typical Range
0.01 - 0.22
mASD
Highest Recorded
1.06 mASD
EA official record
0.82 in our data (since Nov 1962)
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Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Steady over 5h
10 Oct 14:00 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 13:45 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 13:30 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 13:15 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 13:00 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 12:45 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 12:30 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 12:15 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 12:00 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 11:45 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 11:30 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 11:15 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 11:00 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 10:45 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 10:30 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 10:15 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 10:00 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 09:45 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 09:30 ▬ steady -0.109 mASD
10 Oct 09:15 -0.109 mASD

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Beck Bridge
  • Watercourse: River Kennett
  • Nearest Town: Isleham
  • County: Suffolk
  • Coordinates: 52°19'56"N 0°26'18"E (52.332181, 0.438278)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 14 Jul 1979
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: E21119
  • RLOI id: 6253 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: E21119-level-stage-i-15_min-mASD
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: mASD
  • Typical rise rate: 1 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Cam and Ely Ouse (Including South Level)
  • Typical Range: 0.011 – 0.223 mASD
  • Drainage Area: 102 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Daily mean flow (m³/s) to 21 Sep (19 days behind — the EA publishes each day's mean a day or two after it ends; unchecked, provisional) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: -0.11 mASD (EA at 10 Oct 13:45)
  • Flow Archive: National River Flow Archive ↗

Geographic coordinates may reflect the access point for the gauge, and not the precise location in the watercourse that it is taking readings from.

Nearby Stations

Gauges connected to this river, and others nearby. A distance “by river” follows the river on the map; any other is in a straight line.

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Nearby

Distances by river: OS Open Rivers. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

💧 Storm overflows upstream of this gauge

None of the storm overflows FloodRadar holds is traced upstream of this gauge on the mapped river network. That is not the same as none: the map leaves out many small streams and culverts, so an overflow it cannot place may still drain here, and not every company publishes every overflow. Those nearby are listed below.

Nearby, connection not known

Within 6 km in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water passes this gauge.

💧
Anglian Water · into River Lark · 2.9 km away in a straight line · not connected to this gauge on the river map
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
💧
Anglian Water · into River Kennett · 3.1 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
7 spills · 9 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last

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 →

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Rainfall & Weather

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How often this river runs high

In a typical year this gauge reaches its typical high of 0.22 m on about 20 days. This year so far: 12 days.

2026 12 days so far
2025 5 days
2024 65 days, 6 of them high · 6 high
2023 34 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
2022 7 days
2021 36 days, 4 of them high · 4 high
2020 15 days, 1 of them high · 1 high
2019 1 day
2018 14 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
2017 4 days

Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out. The darker part is days above 0.39 m, the level this gauge tops only a few days a year.

Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2012 for the 5 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 6.1 km away).

0flood warnings 20flood alerts

Most recent flood alert: 18 Feb 2024 — River Lark in Suffolk

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2024 0 4
2023 0 4
2021 0 4
2020 0 3
2019 0 3
2012 0 2

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 Isleham flood history.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 5 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.

Catchment Character

🌊 Mixed response A 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
0.56
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
610 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +2% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.7%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
3.16 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
10.80 m³/s
16 Sep 1968 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.2420.8500.1190.0175% (high)% of days exceeded95% (low)
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.
Land Cover (2023)
Woodland 7%Grassland 34%Arable 55%Urban 4%
Arable 74% → 55% since 1990

Flow affected by: groundwater abstraction, effluent returns, industrial / agricultural abstraction.

Photos

Gauging-station photographs from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).

Photos © NRFA / UKCEH & the measuring authority — shown at web resolution. Full gallery on the NRFA ↗

About this gauge

Crump profile weir gauging a rural, Chalk catchment with some Boulder Clay and terrace deposits and with some artificial influences, all but the very highest flows are contained.

More detail

The catchment

A rural Chalk catchment with Boulder Clay cover in upper (S) part of catchment. Some river terrace deposits in N. Mixed agricultural land use.

The station

Crump profile weir 4m wide, situated approx. 20m u/s of new road bridge.

How it measures flow

The POR maximum flow is believed to have been in Sept 1968, estimated as 15.1 cumecs by the EA but likely to have been extrapolated.

Flow regime

Some groundwater abstraction for PWS, also industrial/agricultural abstraction. Runoff increased by effluent returns.

The flow record

Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in September 2020 (WINFAP Files v9).

Descriptions from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH). NRFA station record ↗

Gauge Details

How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).

Gauge type
Crump weir
Operating since
1962
Station datum
3.9 mAOD
Flow record
1962–2024 · 62 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1962
Hydrometric area
33
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Kennett at Beck Bridge flooding today?

The current level is -0.11m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Beck Bridge?

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 Kennett at Beck Bridge?

The typical range at this station is 0.01m to 0.22m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.22m 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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