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Lea Marston

Tame
Tame Anker and Mease catchment • Lea Marston • Warwickshire • ID: 4080 • Level
(31m ago) • 2 readings/hr • 169 views

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Current Level
0.329 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.356 mASD
24h Min
0.255 mASD
Typical Range
0.30 - 0.80
mASD
Highest Recorded
1.99 mASD
30 Dec 1981
Since Nov 1981
Current level is 16% of this
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Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Falling · -3 cm over 6h
23 Aug 23:00 ▬ steady 0.329 mASD
23 Aug 22:45 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.329 mASD
23 Aug 21:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.328 mASD
23 Aug 21:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.329 mASD
23 Aug 21:00 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.330 mASD
23 Aug 20:45 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.332 mASD
23 Aug 20:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.334 mASD
23 Aug 20:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.335 mASD
23 Aug 20:00 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.336 mASD
23 Aug 19:45 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.338 mASD
23 Aug 19:30 ▼ -0.3 cm 0.340 mASD
23 Aug 19:15 ▼ -0.3 cm 0.343 mASD
23 Aug 19:00 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.346 mASD
23 Aug 18:45 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.348 mASD
23 Aug 18:30 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.350 mASD
23 Aug 18:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.352 mASD
23 Aug 18:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.353 mASD
23 Aug 17:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.354 mASD
23 Aug 17:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.355 mASD
23 Aug 17:15 0.356 mASD

Rainfall & Weather

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2006 for the 21 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.3 km away).

124flood warnings 227flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 1 Mar 2026River Blythe at Blyth End

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2026 8 11
2025 13 13
2024 12 32
2023 10 14
2022 0 12
2021 5 12
2020 9 15
2019 20 28
2018 10 10
2017 1 2
2016 6 15
2015 0 1
2014 0 8
2013 1 5
2012 20 13
2011 0 1
2010 0 1
2009 0 5
2008 9 15
2007 0 11
2006 0 3

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 Lea Marston flood history.

Nearby Stations

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Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Lea Marston
  • Watercourse: River Tame
  • Nearest Town: Lea Marston
  • County: Warwickshire
  • Coordinates: 52°32'28"N 1°41'44"W (52.541117, -1.695622)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 1 Nov 1981
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
  • Station Reference: 4080
  • EA Gauge ID: 4080-level-stage-i-15_min-mASD
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: mASD
  • Typical rise rate: 4 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Tame Anker and Mease
  • Typical Range: 0.302 – 0.799 mASD
  • Drainage Area: 799 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Available (m³/s) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.33 mASD (EA at 23 Aug 22:45)
  • 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.

Catchment Character

🌊 Urban & flashy Heavily built-up — rain runs off hard surfaces fast, so levels can spike within hours of heavy rain.

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
0.47
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
756 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +5% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
38%
heavily urbanised
Median Annual Flood
117 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
174 m³/s
15 Jun 2007
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 13.8831.4010.777.265% (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 5%Grassland 27%Arable 13%Urban 53%Other 1%

Flow affected by: 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

Unusual twin bay, chevron shaped Crump profile weirs discharging into an inline settlement lagoon - replaces Lea Marston (28004) in 1982.

More detail

The catchment

Substantially urbanised catchment containing Birmingham. Solid geology: Coal Measures group with sandstones in the west and Mercia Mudstone elsewhere. Catchment mostly overlain by extensive cover of Boulder Clay and glacial sand and gravel in equal proportion.

The station

Unusual twin bay, chevron shaped Crump profile weirs, 21.5m total width, discharging into an inline settlement lagoon. Replaced 28004 Lea Marston in 1982 (large scatter in gaugings at all levels), record combined. Weed booms were installed in 2001, 30m upstream of twin weirs but produced large head difference. Weed booms damaged/bent when hit by debris during medium/high flow and were replaced with automatic screens. These can produce pulses in flow when cleared and still have a slight head difference but not as bad as previous screens. Automatic screens removed in 2019.

How it measures flow

The weirs are affected by drowning due to high levels in downstream lake, but this is only minor. Site is known to bypass at high levels, but this floodplain flow is taken into account in most recent rating. Two peak flow ratings applied across period of record, the most recent is valid from June-2001. Ratings fit gaugings well and account for bypassing.

Flow regime

Substantial flow modification from large imports and urbanised areas.

The flow record

Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in October 2018 (WINFAP Files v7).

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
Gauging structure
Operating since
1957
Station datum
66.2 mAOD
Flow record
1957–2024 · 67 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1981
Hydrometric area
28
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Tame at Lea Marston flooding today?

The current level is 0.33m, which is within the typical range of 0.30 to 0.80m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Lea Marston?

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.

What is a normal level for the River Tame at Lea Marston?

The typical range at this station is 0.30m to 0.80m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.80m 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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