Chad Brook — monitoring and records

The monitoring network on this water

Hydrionis holds 1,246 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

1,246

Values held

1965–2025

Record spans

Gauges on the Chad 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 Chad Brook at Long Melford

Each month's mean discharge as the publisher computed it, which shows the seasonal shape an annual mean flattens away. 1965–2025.

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	Chad Brook at Long Melford (m³/s)
1965	0.096
1966	0.378
1967	0.550
1968	0.618
1969	0.785
1970	0.730
1971	0.694
1972	0.808
1973	0.059
1974	0.170
1975	0.644
1976	0.158
1977	0.734
1978	0.475
1979	0.450
1980	0.309
1981	0.332
1982	0.652
1983	0.311
1984	0.881
1985	0.721
1986	0.563
1987	0.511
1988	1.71
1989	0.381
1990	0.275
1991	0.187
1992	0.205
1993	0.731
1994	0.859
1995	0.846
1996	0.181
1997	0.097
1998	0.393
1999	0.624
2000	0.349
2001	0.888
2002	0.462
2003	1.21
2004	0.965
2005	0.364
2006	0.196
2007	0.660
2008	0.629
2009	0.518
2010	0.514
2011	1.11
2012	0.176
2013	0.681
2014	0.995
2015	0.674
2016	0.748
2017	0.301
2018	0.567
2019	0.054
2020	0.539
2021	1.21
2022	0.306
2023	0.579
2024	0.812
2025	0.393

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	1965–2025
Completeness	100.0% of the periods in that span are held.
Continuity	Continuous: every year from 1965 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 Chad Brook and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
Chad Brook at Long Melford	mean river flow, mean monthly river flow	761	1965–2025
CHAD BROOK	ept family richness, life flow index (family level), proportion of sediment-sensitive invertebrates, whpt average score per taxon, whpt number of scoring taxa	300	1986–2014
CHAD BROOK	ept family richness, life flow index (family level), proportion of sediment-sensitive invertebrates, whpt average score per taxon, whpt number of scoring taxa	185	1988–2015

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
Chad Brook at Long Melford	Stated by the publisher — Environment Agency hydrology station register, riverName field — https://environment.data.gov.uk/hydrology/id/stations	2026-08-26
CHAD BROOK	Stated by the publisher on the record this gauge’s observations came from.	With the observations
CHAD 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	61	yes, 20 or more
Values held	1,246	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), Chad Brook gauge records, accessed 2026-09-02, hydrionis.com/waters/england-chad-brook/

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Where these figures come from

Spatially aggregatedHigh confidence2023

Source: EA — Hydrology Data Explorer API, EA measure af0da814-0f9f-4928-89fe-6ef112d381d6-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.