Chart Leacon water level

Name: Chart Leacon water level (Environment Agency)
Creator: Environment Agency
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

River gauge, Great Stour, Kent, United Kingdom

Directions

Below the normal range

Water level

0.10m Down 0.03 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 17 Oct 2026, 22:15 BST (2 hours ago)

History

7 days 30 days

Water level Top of normal rangeBottom of normal range

What this means

The Great Stour at Chart Leacon is running below normal at 0.10 m.

The usual range here runs from 0.10 m to 0.61 m.

It has dropped 0.03 m over the past 24 hours. Without real rain upstream, that is unlikely to change quickly. In the last month it has stayed between 0.09 m and 0.13 m.

Autumn rain usually starts to lift rivers again after the summer low.

Compared with the normal range the agency publishes for this gauge. How to read levels

Key numbers

Normal range: 0.10 m – 0.61 m
Lowest and highest in 30 days: 0.09 m – 0.13 m
Highest on record: 1.77 mDecember 27, 1985
Lowest on record: 0.07 mSeptember 30, 2009

Fishing and paddling

At low levels, many rivers become a walk-and-paddle trip. Fish hold in deeper pools and spook easily.

Flood alerts and warnings come from the Environment Agency.

About the Great Stour

The River Stour is a river in Kent, England that flows into the North Sea at Pegwell Bay. Above Plucks Gutter, where the Little Stour joins it, the river is normally known as the Great Stour. The upper section of the river, above its confluence with the East Stour at Ashford is sometimes known as the Upper Great Stour or West Stour. In the tidal lower reaches, the artificial Stonar Cut short cuts a large loop in the natural river.

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 4.2 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 14° 7° – Wind 25 km/h

18 Sun 12° 8° 25 mm, 100% Wind 25 km/h

19 Mon 14° 7° – Wind 12 km/h

20 Tue 14° 11° 1.8 mm, 39% Wind 14 km/h

21 Wed 14° 11° 14 mm, 49% Wind 16 km/h

22 Thu 14° 5° 4.6 mm, 50% Wind 22 km/h

23 Fri 13° 8° 19 mm, 78% Wind 49 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:24 AM Sunset 06:02 PM Daylight 10 hr, 38 min First quarter 44%

Map

Other gauges on the Great Stour

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Hothfield UpstreamRiver gauge, Great Stour	0.06 m	Low	−0.02 m	2.6 km
Brown MillRiver gauge, Great Stour	0.16 m	Normal	+0.06 m	4.4 km
WyeRiver gauge, Great Stour	0.10 m	Very low	−0.01 m	7.3 km
Horton weirRiver gauge, Great Stour	0.16 m	Normal	+0.01 m	18 km
West Gate GardensRiver gauge, Great Stour	0.21 m	Low	+0.02 m	22 km
Vauxhall BridgeRiver gauge, Great Stour	0.28 m	Normal	+0.01 m	25 km
Fordwich River LevelRiver gauge, Great Stour	1.41 m	Normal	−0.05 m	26 km
GroveFerryTidal gauge, Great Stour	1.25 m	No reference yet	−0.09 m	32 km

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Aylesford StreamRiver gauge, Old Mill Stream	0.90 m	Normal	−0.01 m	2.6 km
White Water DykeRiver gauge	−0.02 m	Lowest on record	+0.01 m	2.7 km
Aldington UpstreamRiver gauge, East Stour Trib Great Stour	−0.09 m	Lowest on record	±0	8.3 km
SmardenRiver gauge, River Beult	0.24 m	Low	−0.01 m	11 km
SellindgeRiver gauge, East Stour Trib Great Stour	0.20 m	Very low	−0.02 m	12 km
Upper Petham BourneGroundwater well	62.02 m	Normal	−0.07 m	14 km

Questions and answers

What is the typical range for the Great Stour at Chart Leacon?

The Environment Agency gives a typical range of 0.10 m to 0.61 m for this gauge.

Is the river level the same as the depth of the water?

No. The reading is measured from a fixed zero mark at the gauge, so 0.10 m on the gauge does not mean the water is that deep.

What is the water level of Chart Leacon today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 22:15 BST, the water level was 0.10 m. Down 0.03 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Chart Leacon rising or falling?

Down 0.03 m over the last 24 hours. Steady over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Chart Leacon normal?

Below the normal range. Compared with the normal range the agency publishes for this gauge.

What is the highest water level ever recorded at Chart Leacon?

The highest level on record is 1.77 m on December 27, 1985. The lowest is 0.07 m on September 30, 2009.

How often is this data updated?

The Environment Agency publishes a new reading every 15 minutes. This page refreshes within minutes of each update.

For specialists

Station codes, datum, parameters, data quality and downloads

Operator: Environment Agency
Station code: ea:E4330 (Agency page)
Coordinates: 51.14506, 0.84698 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: station datum
Update interval: every 15 minutes
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Environment Agency data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Published series

Parameter	Last value	Time (UTC)	Quality
Water level	0.10 m	2026-10-17 21:15	Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Chart Leacon (ea:E4330). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/kent/chart-leacon

How we check values

Each reading is stored as published. We hold back values that jump faster than physically plausible and show the measurement time with every value.

Readings are provisional, can be delayed or wrong and are not a flood warning. Read the disclaimer