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Moorhouse

Trout Beck
Tees catchment • Moorhouse • Westmorland and Furness • ID: F3509 • Level
(30m ago) • 3 readings/hr • 156 views

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Current Level
0.200 m
▼ Easing
24h Max
0.342 m
24h Min
0.191 m
Typical Range
0.05 - 0.80
m
Highest Recorded
1.61 m
EA official record
1.61 in our data (since Jun 1991)
Current level is 12% of this
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Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Falling · -0.5 cm over 6h
08 Oct 20:00 ▲ +0.2 cm 0.200 m
08 Oct 19:45 ▲ +0.2 cm 0.198 m
08 Oct 19:15 ▲ +0.4 cm 0.196 m
08 Oct 18:45 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.192 m
08 Oct 18:30 ▬ steady 0.191 m
08 Oct 18:15 ▬ steady 0.191 m
08 Oct 17:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.191 m
08 Oct 17:30 ▬ steady 0.192 m
08 Oct 17:15 ▬ steady 0.192 m
08 Oct 17:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.192 m
08 Oct 16:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.193 m
08 Oct 16:30 ▬ steady 0.194 m
08 Oct 16:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.194 m
08 Oct 16:00 ▼ -0.3 cm 0.195 m
08 Oct 15:30 ▬ steady 0.198 m
08 Oct 15:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.198 m
08 Oct 15:00 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.199 m
08 Oct 14:30 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.201 m
08 Oct 14:00 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.203 m
08 Oct 13:45 0.205 m

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Moorhouse
  • Watercourse: Trout Beck
  • Nearest Town: Moorhouse
  • County: Westmorland and Furness
  • Nearest reservoir: Cow Green (5.4 km) · 96.7% full (as of 28 Dec 2025)
  • Coordinates: 54°41'45"N 2°22'37"W (54.695931, -2.376978)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 1 Oct 1957
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: F3509
  • RLOI id: 8141 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: F3509-level-stage-i-15_min-m
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: m
  • Typical rise rate: 9 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Tees
  • Typical Range: 0.045 – 0.800 m
  • Drainage Area: 11 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Daily mean flow (m³/s) to 6 Oct (2 days behind — the EA publishes each day's mean a day or two after it ends; unchecked, provisional) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.20 m (EA at 8 Oct 19:45)
  • 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.

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

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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 0.80 m on about 3 days. This year so far: 2 days.

2026 2 days so far
2025 3 days
2024 3 days
2023 5 days
2022 3 days
2021 3 days
2020 4 days
2019 4 days
2018 3 days
2017 3 days

Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out.

Catchment Character

🌊 Flashy Rain runs off fast — levels rise and fall sharply, often 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
0.23
flashy — rain runs off fast
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,893 mm/yr
1991–2020 · -7% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.0%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
15.20 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
28.00 m³/s
25 Mar 1979 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.5662.330.1930.0205% (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)
Grassland 1%Heath/scrub 99%
Heath/scrub 89% → 99% since 1990

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

Compound crump weir. Closed in 1980 but re-opened in 1991 as part of a global environmental research initiative.

More detail

The catchment

Small, relatively remote, upland catchment located in a nature reserve in upper Teesdale. Former lead mining area with hushing (channnels created by deliberate dam burst) in upper catchment. Part of National Nature Reserve managed by English Nature. Catchment is almost entirely covered by peaty moorland, developed mainly on Carboniferous Limestone. No known catchment changes.

The station

Three Crump-profile crests (1:2, 1:5 slopes), totalling 12.8 m wide, with central low flow crest of 1.5 m; no cableway. River ice above weir may affect rating in winter, and in severe winters may freeze in well giving a flat float trace (e.g. 1963, 1979). Inaccessible in severe winters (e.g. 1979). Dividing piers added, creating flanking weirs, and abutment walls altered to alleviate shoaling problem by narrowing channel, in 1962. Closed in 1980 but recommissioned 1991 for global environmental research initiative. Data presented for the present structure, from water year 1962/63.

How it measures flow

U/s shoaling and low winter temperatures affected precision of flows. Two peak flow ratings applied across period of record, valid until station closure in 1980, and after recommissioning in 1991, respectively.

Flow regime

Responsive natural regime. No known artificial influences.

The flow record

Severe winters in 1963 and 1979 caused the river to freeze resulting in a flat float trace. Missing data 19/08/2001-09/11/2001 due to lack of access due to foot and mouth disease, logger data overwritten and lost as a result of the rolling memory. Missing data 07-21/01/2003 due to telemetry issues. Missing data 24/07/2003-31/31/08/2003 due to site refurbishment works. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in August 2024 (WINFAP Files v13).

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
533.0 mAOD
Flow record
1957–2024 · 67 yrs · 83% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1957
Hydrometric area
25
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the Trout Beck at Moorhouse flooding today?

The current level is 0.20m, which is within the typical range of 0.05 to 0.80m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Moorhouse?

Based on the most recent readings, the level is currently falling slightly. 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 Trout Beck at Moorhouse?

The typical range at this station is 0.05m 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 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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