River Levels
River Levels

Limey Water at Rawtenstall

Current River Level

0.310m

At 4:00am, Friday 19th April BST
(3:00am, Friday 19th April GMT)

Within the usual range for this location

Steady, no change from previous measurement at 3:45am, Friday 19th April BST

Short-term forecast: falling

Flood Warning Areas Covering Here

River Irwell at Rawtenstall

No current or recent warnings.

Upper River Irwell catchment with Oldham, Bolton, Rochdale, Haslingden, Ramsbottom and Rawtenstall

No current or recent warnings.

Other Nearby Flood Warning Areas

Limy Water at Crawshawbooth and Constable Lee

No current or recent warnings.

Folly Clough Brook at Crawshawbooth

No current or recent warnings.

Whitewell Brook at Whitewell Bottom and Scout

No current or recent warnings.

Seven Day Level Chart

Including short term predicted levels (shown as dotted line)

Important! Forecast levels are generated algorithmically by the Environment Agency's computers and may not necessarily be accurate, particularly in times of rapidly changing weather. Please check related flood warning areas for more detailed, professionally assessed predictions.

Long Term Level Chart

Darker blue shaded areas on long term data indicate maximum and minimum levels for the date (you may need to zoom in closer to see them).

Long term data may have gaps where the API data was not available.

Download long term data as csv

Note: CSV data will include any outlying values that have been ignored by our graphing system as probably erroneous (eg, because they are ridiculously high compared to the values either side of them). It is your responsibility to filter these out if necessary.

Important! If you are planning to retrieve the csv data automatically, you must read and understand the limitations on the data and its availability.

Location and Technical Data

  • Monitoring Station: Rawtenstall
  • Watercourse: Limey Water
  • Nearest Town/Village: Rawtenstall
  • Local Authority: Rossendale
  • Ceremonial County: Lancashire
  • Coordinates: 53°42'20"N 2°17'10"W (53.705772,-2.286263)
  • OS Grid: SD812233 (381200,423300)
  • Mapcode (Local): GBR DTGL.TB
  • Mapcode (Global): WH97B.V3HX
  • Open Location Code: 9C5VPP47+8F
  • Maidenhead Locator System: IO83uq59
  • Environment Agency Location ID: 690138
  • Environment Agency Gauge ID: 690138-level-stage-i-15_min-m
  • River Levels Online ID: 5116
  • Water Information System ID: 690138
  • Operational Area: Croal Irwell
  • Catchment Area: Irwell
  • UK Hydrometric Area: Mersey and Irwell
  • Environment Agency Region: North West
  • Datum Type: Above Stage Datum (ASD)
  • Stage Datum: 169.84m AOD

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

The usual range of the Limey Water at Rawtenstall is between 0.04m and 1.70m. It has been between these levels for 90% of the time since monitoring began.

The typical recent level of the Limey Water at Rawtenstall over the past 12 months has been between 0.09m and 0.59m. It has been between these levels for at least 150 days in the past year.

The highest level ever recorded at the Limey Water at Rawtenstall is 1.62m, reached on Sunday 9th February 2020 at 12:00pm.

Note that this data may not take account of recent measurements, as we wait until a level has been verified by the Environment Agency before adding it to our records.

Nearby Monitoring Locations

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