South Forty Foot Drain: water levels along the river

4 gauges report along South Forty Foot Drain. 1 of them reads below normal for the date, and none is running high.

The gauges are in Lincolnshire. Reading the gauges in order shows how a rise or a dry spell travels downstream, usually over a day or more on a big river. Autumn is often a low point for rivers after the summer, until steady rain returns.

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4 gauges

South Forty Foot Drain: water levels along the river
Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Updated
SwatonRiver gauge, South Forty Foot Drain	0.20 m	Normal	+0.03 m	49 min ago
Donington BridgeRiver gauge, South Forty Foot Drain	0.73 m	Normal	−0.01 m	49 min ago
Billingborough OusemereRiver gauge, South Forty Foot Drain	0.03 m	Low	±0	49 min ago
Dowsby FenRiver gauge, South Forty Foot Drain	0.77 m	Normal	−0.01 m	49 min ago

Gauges are listed from upstream to downstream where the agency publishes river kilometres.

About the South Forty Foot Drain

The South Forty-Foot Drain, also known as the Black Sluice Navigation, is the main channel for the land-drainage of the Black Sluice Level in the Lincolnshire Fens. It lies in eastern England between Guthram Gowt and the Black Sluice pumping station on The Haven, at Boston. The Drain has its origins in the 1630s, when the first scheme to make the Fen land available for agriculture was carried out by the Earl of Lindsey, and has been steadily improved since then. Water drained from the land entered The Haven by gravity at certain states of the tide until 1946, when the Black Sluice pumping station was commissioned.