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Stareton

Avon
Warwickshire Avon catchment • Stareton • Warwickshire • ID: 2019 • Level
(22m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 178 views

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Current Level
0.121 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.126 mASD
24h Min
0.121 mASD
Typical Range
0.11 - 1.95
mASD
Highest Recorded
2.70 mASD
EA official record
2.62 in our data (since Sep 1962)
Current level is 4% of this
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Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Falling · -0.2 cm over 6h
24 Aug 00:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.121 mASD
24 Aug 00:15 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.122 mASD
24 Aug 00:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.121 mASD
23 Aug 23:45 ▬ steady 0.122 mASD
23 Aug 23:30 ▬ steady 0.122 mASD
23 Aug 23:15 ▬ steady 0.122 mASD
23 Aug 23:00 ▬ steady 0.122 mASD
23 Aug 22:45 ▬ steady 0.122 mASD
23 Aug 21:30 ▬ steady 0.122 mASD
23 Aug 21:15 ▬ steady 0.122 mASD
23 Aug 21:00 ▬ steady 0.122 mASD
23 Aug 20:45 ▬ steady 0.122 mASD
23 Aug 20:30 ▬ steady 0.122 mASD
23 Aug 20:15 ▬ steady 0.122 mASD
23 Aug 20:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.122 mASD
23 Aug 19:45 ▬ steady 0.123 mASD
23 Aug 19:30 ▬ steady 0.123 mASD
23 Aug 19:15 ▬ steady 0.123 mASD
23 Aug 19:00 ▬ steady 0.123 mASD
23 Aug 18:45 0.123 mASD

Rainfall & Weather

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2011 for the 24 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 2.4 km away).

201flood warnings 62flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 27 Feb 2026Gog Brook at Warwick

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2026 6 7
2025 13 6
2024 42 11
2023 16 7
2022 0 2
2021 6 5
2020 15 6
2019 17 9
2018 1 3
2017 0 1
2016 11 4
2014 8 1
2013 15 0
2012 46 0
2011 5 0

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 Stareton flood history.

Nearby Stations

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Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Stareton
  • Watercourse: River Avon
  • Nearest Town: Stareton
  • County: Warwickshire
  • Nearest reservoir: Draycote (12.6 km) · 78.5% full (as of 17 Aug 2026)
  • Coordinates: 52°20'27"N 1°30'46"W (52.340881, -1.512833)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 26 Sep 1962
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
  • Station Reference: 2019
  • EA Gauge ID: 2019-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: Warwickshire Avon
  • Typical Range: 0.105 – 1.950 mASD
  • Drainage Area: 347 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Available (m³/s) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.12 mASD (EA at 24 Aug 00:15)
  • 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

🌊 Fairly flashy Responds fairly quickly to rain, with moderate baseflow between events.

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
0.42
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
690 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +0% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
4.6%
partly urbanised
Median Annual Flood
29.95 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Recorded Flow
63.46 m³/s
3 Jan 2024
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 2.619.021.350.4995% (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 4%Grassland 44%Arable 38%Urban 13%Other 1%
Grassland 48% → 44% since 1990

Flow affected by: surface-water 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 with crest tapping, with moderate influence from abstractions and returns. The highest floods overtop the right bank and follow the old river channel.

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The catchment

Geology: from Upper Lias in the headwaters through Middle and Lower Lias with Mercia Mudstones and Triassic Sandstones in the lower reaches. Extensive covering of superficial deposits. Predominantly agricultural, low relief catchment, containing Rugby.

The station

Crump profile weir, 7.3m wide with crest tapping.

How it measures flow

Three ratings across the period of record. ADCP gaugings typically undertaken just upstream of the weir.

Flow regime

Early record to 1971 had Coventry sewage outfall diverted through station. Augmentation by groundwater pumping and surface transfers. Moderate influence from abstractions and 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
54.7 mAOD
Flow record
1962–2024 · 62 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1962
Hydrometric area
54
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Avon at Stareton flooding today?

The current level is 0.12m, which is within the typical range of 0.11 to 1.95m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Stareton?

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 Avon at Stareton?

The typical range at this station is 0.11m to 1.95m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.95m 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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