Belchamp Brook — monitoring and records

The monitoring network on this water

Hydrionis holds 1,222 values from 3 gauges on this water. Discharge is a property of a gauge and its reach, not of this water as a whole, so this page reports the network and its records rather than a single figure.

Gauges

1,222

Values held

1960–2025

Record spans

Gauges on the Belchamp Brook

3 monitoring points, positioned as the publisher records them.

The seasonal shape

An annual mean says how much water a river carried. A monthly record says when — and on most rivers the difference between a wet winter and a dry summer is larger than the difference between one year and the next.

Monthly mean flow at Belchamp Brook at Bardfield Bridge

Each month's mean discharge as the publisher computed it, which shows the seasonal shape an annual mean flattens away. 1960–2025.

Show relevant events (4 events)Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.

Taken as the publisher computes it rather than recomputed by Hydrionis from daily values: the publisher knows which of its readings passed validation. Months the gauge did not cover are absent rather than interpolated, and the line breaks where they fall.

What the shaded periods are (4 events)

A shaded period marks when something was recorded, not what caused the shape of the line. Where the two coincide, they coincided.

Documented record — A documented event, compiled from cited sources after it happened. The dates are as good as the record, which for older events can mean the month rather than the day.

Event	Type	Period	Standing	Authority
The 1976 drought	Drought declaration	1975-05-01 – 1976-08-31	Documented record	Compiled record
Yorkshire drought	Drought declaration	1995-04-01 – 1996-03-31	Documented record	Compiled record
The 2022 drought	Drought declaration	2022-03-01 – 2022-10-31	Documented record	Compiled record
European drought	Drought declaration	2022-05-01 – 2022-10-31	Documented record	Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	Belchamp Brook at Bardfield Bridge (m³/s)
1960	0.551
1961	0.487
1962	0.471
1963	0.045
1964	0.112
1965	0.038
1966	0.286
1967	0.438
1968	0.444
1969	0.546
1970	0.521
1971	0.642
1972	0.673
1973	0.039
1974	0.095
1975	0.544
1976	0.052
1977	0.606
1978	0.411
1979	0.336
1980	0.247
1981	0.207
1982	0.642
1983	0.307
1984	0.882
1985	0.510
1986	0.312
1987	0.313
1988	1.82
1989	0.183
1990	0.172
1991	0.056
1992	0.053
1993	0.495
1994	0.939
1995	0.831
1996	0.151
1997	0.046
1998	0.263
1999	0.638
2000	0.223
2001	0.969
2002	0.416
2003	1.18
2004	0.652
2005	0.248
2006	0.092
2007	0.527
2008	0.584
2009	0.535
2010	0.405
2011	0.709
2012	0.092
2013	0.596
2014	0.860
2015	0.709
2016	0.604
2017	0.140
2018	0.325
2019	0.034
2020	0.320
2021	1.01
2022	0.143
2023	0.659
2024	0.369
2025	0.351

About this series

Everything below is a property of the data rather than a rating of it. There is deliberately no single confidence score: how much a gap matters depends on what you are about to do with the series, and only you know that.

Source	Environment Agency — Hydrology Data Explorer API · Open Government Licence v3.0
How the values came to exist	Measured
Period held	1960–2025
Completeness	100.0% of the periods in that span are held.
Continuity	Continuous: every year from 1960 to 2025 is held.
Last read from the publisher	2026-08-24
Redistribution	Permitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reuse	Permitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
Methodology	How this was produced

Every gauge Hydrionis holds here

Gauges on the Belchamp Brook and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
Belchamp Brook at Bardfield Bridge	mean river flow, mean monthly river flow	807	1960–2025
BELCHAMP BROOK	ept family richness, life flow index (family level), proportion of sediment-sensitive invertebrates, whpt average score per taxon, whpt number of scoring taxa	210	1986–2024
BELCHAMP BROOK	ept family richness, life flow index (family level), proportion of sediment-sensitive invertebrates, whpt average score per taxon, whpt number of scoring taxa	205	1995–2022

How these gauges were attached to this water

Named by the publisher Each gauge here names this water in the publisher’s own station record. Hydrionis has not inferred the connection from station names.

What each gauge’s link to this water rests on
Gauge	Evidence	Established
Belchamp Brook at Bardfield Bridge	Stated by the publisher — Environment Agency hydrology station register, riverName field — https://environment.data.gov.uk/hydrology/id/stations	2026-08-26
BELCHAMP BROOK	Stated by the publisher on the record this gauge’s observations came from.	With the observations
BELCHAMP BROOK	Stated by the publisher on the record this gauge’s observations came from.	With the observations

What this record holds

Hydrionis decides which waters get a page, and which of those are offered to search, from what is actually held rather than from how the page reads. Five signals are counted; this record has 5 of them, which makes it a full profile.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	3	yes, 3 or more
Years spanned	66	yes, 20 or more
Values held	1,222	yes, 1000 or more
Distinct measurements	7	yes, 2 or more
Publishers measuring it	2	yes, 2 or more
Official identifiers	1	recorded, not counted

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Attribution and citation

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Environment Agency — Open Government Licence v3.0 (licence text)

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

Hydrionis (2026), Belchamp Brook gauge records, accessed 2026-09-02, hydrionis.com/waters/england-belchamp-brook/

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Where these figures come from

Spatially aggregatedHigh confidence2023

Source: EA — Hydrology Data Explorer API, EA measure 2258aa15-417c-49cf-a3ba-f23e7a75d2f0-flow-m-86400-m3s-qualified. Licence: Open — attribution required (attribution required).

Method: Mean of the twelve monthly means for the year. Computed from months rather than from daily readings directly, so that a year with uneven observation is not weighted toward its best-observed months. Years with any month missing are not published.

Aggregated by Hydrionis from daily mean flow published by the Environment Agency under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Retrieved 24 August 2026.