Holderness Drain: water levels along the river

3 gauges report along Holderness Drain. Every gauge with a normal range is reading within it.

The gauges are in East Riding of Yorkshire. 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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3 gauges

Holderness Drain: water levels along the river
Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Updated
Tickton PSRiver gauge, Holderness Drain	−1.95 m	No reference yet	−0.03 m	32 min ago
Bransholme Great Culvert Pumping StationRiver gauge, Holderness Drain	−2.10 m	Normal	+0.10 m	32 min ago
East Hull Hedon RoadRiver gauge, Holderness Drain	−0.42 m	No reference yet	+0.01 m	32 min ago

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

About the Holderness Drain

Holderness Drain is the main feature of a land drainage scheme for the area of Holderness to the east of the River Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Construction began in 1764, and several notable civil engineers were involved with the scheme over the years. Despite the high costs of the initial scheme, it was not particularly successful, because of the refusal of the ship owners of Hull to allow an outlet at Marfleet. They insisted that the water be discharged into the River Hull to keep the channel free of silt. Following a period of agricultural depression and the building of new docks in the early 1800s, an outlet at Marfleet was finally authorised in 1832. A high level system still fed upland water to the Hull, but the low level system discharged into the Humber, where levels were considerably lower. Following the success of steam pumping on the Beverley and Barmston Drain, the trustees looked at such a possibility for the Holderness Drain, but the development of the Alexandra Dock in the 1880s and then the King George V Dock in 1913 provided a solution, as the docks were topped up with water pumped from the drain, to lessen the ingress of silt-laden water.