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Crudgington FLOW

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• Telford and Wrekin • ID: 2170a • Flow
(48m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 109 views
Current Flow
0.221 m3/s
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.260 m3/s
24h Min
0.215 m3/s
Typical Range
-
Highest Recorded
3.30 m3/s
7 Feb 2026
Since Feb 2025
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Flow Readings

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Recent Readings

Falling · -0.4 cm over 5h
10 Oct 13:45 ▼ -0.5 cm 0.221 m3/s
10 Oct 13:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.226 m3/s
10 Oct 13:15 ▲ +0.5 cm 0.227 m3/s
10 Oct 13:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.222 m3/s
10 Oct 12:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.223 m3/s
10 Oct 12:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.224 m3/s
10 Oct 12:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.225 m3/s
10 Oct 11:45 ▬ steady 0.226 m3/s
10 Oct 11:30 ▼ -0.8 cm 0.226 m3/s
10 Oct 11:15 ▲ +0.4 cm 0.234 m3/s
10 Oct 11:00 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.230 m3/s
10 Oct 10:45 ▲ +0.3 cm 0.229 m3/s
10 Oct 10:30 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.226 m3/s
10 Oct 10:15 ▼ -0.5 cm 0.228 m3/s
10 Oct 10:00 ▲ +1 cm 0.233 m3/s
10 Oct 09:45 ▼ -0.6 cm 0.223 m3/s
10 Oct 09:30 ▲ +0.7 cm 0.229 m3/s
10 Oct 09:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.222 m3/s
10 Oct 09:00 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.223 m3/s
10 Oct 08:45 0.225 m3/s

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Crudgington FLOW
  • Watercourse: —
  • County: Telford and Wrekin
  • Coordinates: 52°45'15"N 2°32'2"W (52.754303, -2.534010)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: Flow gauging station (inferred)
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: 2170a
  • Also at this site: Crudgington (2170, level, reporting)
  • EA Gauge ID: 2170a-flow--i-15_min-m3_s
  • Parameter: Flow
  • Unit: m3/s
  • Typical rise rate: 20 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Drainage Area: 96 km² upstream of this gauge
  • 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.

Connected downstream

Same river system, separate branch

Nearby

At this site

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

💧 Storm overflows upstream of this gauge

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 10.3 km away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 1 reports not discharging.

💧
Severn Trent Water · into Tri Of River Strine · 10.3 km upstream along the river
55 spills · 98 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
Placed on the river by its position alone.

Nearby, connection not known

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

💧
Severn Trent Water · into Unnamed Trib Of Lakemoor Brook · 4.0 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now
💧
Severn Trent Water · into Tributary Of River Roden · 4.7 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
12 spills · 17 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
💧
Severn Trent Water · into Trib Of River Roden · 4.8 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
4 spills · 27 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 →

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Rainfall & Weather

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2006 for the 1 flood area linked to this gauge (nearest 1.3 km away).

0flood warnings 187flood alerts

Most recent flood alert: 16 Mar 2026 — Tern and Perry catchments

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2026 0 18
2025 0 7
2024 0 16
2023 0 11
2022 0 6
2021 0 5
2020 0 5
2019 0 10
2018 0 9
2017 0 7
2016 0 9
2015 0 7
2014 0 11
2013 0 12
2012 0 12
2011 0 3
2010 0 4
2009 0 6
2008 0 9
2007 0 13
2006 0 7

Warnings apply to a whole flood area, not necessarily this exact spot. Years before 2006 aren't covered by the EA's historic record.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. This is the area 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
0.63
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
695 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +2% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
9.4%
partly urbanised
Highest Daily Mean Flow
6.04 m³/s
10 Jan 1991 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.6731.770.4890.2285% (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 29%Arable 45%Urban 18%Other 1%
Arable 56% → 45% 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

An electromagnetic gauge station which does suffer from modification due to water reclamation work.

More detail

The catchment

Very flat catchment draining Weald Moors. Headwaters dominated by argillaceous Carboniferous rocks. Lower reaches mostly Permian Sandstone overlain by mixed superficial deposits. Urban areas include Newport and the northern part of Telford.

The station

Electromagnetic gauge, using a bubbler device for level measurement, in trapezoidal channel.

How it measures flow

Very low velocities experienced. Replaced poor weed-affected open channel site in 1981.

Flow regime

Substantial modification to flow regime from WRW discharges.

The flow record

Early record not available.

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
Electromagnetic
Operating since
1982–2009
Station datum
50.0 mAOD
Flow record
1982–2009 · 27 yrs · 92% complete
Hydrometric area
54
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is Crudgington FLOW flooding today?

The latest recorded level is 0.22m. Compare it with the recent history on the chart above to judge whether levels are unusually high.

Is the river level rising or falling at Crudgington FLOW?

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.

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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