The monitoring network on this water

Hydrionis holds 1,317 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.

3
Gauges
1,317
Values held
1963–2025
Record spans
Gauges on the Sandon Brook
3 monitoring points, positioned as the publisher records them.
Gauges on the Sandon BrookSANDON BROOK, SANDON BROOK, Sandon Brook at Sandon BridgeSANDON BROOKSANDON BROOKSandon Brook at Sandon Bridge

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 Sandon Brook at Sandon Bridge
Each month's mean discharge as the publisher computed it, which shows the seasonal shape an annual mean flattens away. 1963–2025.
Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.
Monthly mean flow at Sandon Brook at Sandon BridgeMonthly mean flow at Sandon Brook at Sandon Bridge: Sandon Brook at Sandon Bridge in m³/s, from 1963 to 2025.The 1976 droughtYorkshire droughtThe 2022 droughtEuropean drought0123m³/s19631971197919871995200320112019

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 recordA 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.

EventTypePeriodStandingAuthority
The 1976 droughtDrought declaration1975-05-011976-08-31Documented record
Compiled record
Yorkshire droughtDrought declaration1995-04-011996-03-31Documented record
Compiled record
The 2022 droughtDrought declaration2022-03-012022-10-31Documented record
Compiled record
European droughtDrought declaration2022-05-012022-10-31Documented record
Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

  • Cantareira water crisis, São PauloThis 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 ZeroThis 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 collapseThis 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
PeriodSandon Brook at Sandon Bridge (m³/s)
19630.050
19640.221
19650.109
19660.582
19670.839
19680.827
19690.832
19701.04
19711.23
19720.757
19730.054
19740.248
19751.20
19760.123
19771.13
19780.535
19790.804
19800.306
19810.160
19821.00
19830.344
19840.565
19850.773
19861.03
19870.631
19881.90
19890.172
19900.354
19910.199
19920.062
19930.656
19941.04
19952.06
19960.205
19970.076
19980.472
19991.15
20000.209
20011.16
20020.609
20030.198
20040.667
20050.178
20060.128
20070.410
20080.344
20090.582
20100.633
20110.440
20120.153
20130.477
20141.62
20150.518
20160.553
20170.197
20180.437
20190.131
20200.305
20210.726
20220.217
20230.122
20240.298
20250.100

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 existMeasured
Period held19632025
Completeness100.0% of the periods in that span are held.
ContinuityContinuous: every year from 1963 to 2025 is held.
Last read from the publisher2026-08-24
RedistributionPermitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reusePermitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
MethodologyHow this was produced

Every gauge Hydrionis holds here

Gauges on the Sandon Brook and what each holds
GaugeMeasuresValuesRecord
Sandon Brook at Sandon Bridgemean river flow, mean monthly river flow7621963–2025
SANDON BROOKept family richness, life flow index (family level), proportion of sediment-sensitive invertebrates, whpt average score per taxon, whpt number of scoring taxa3351986–2024
SANDON BROOKept family richness, life flow index (family level), proportion of sediment-sensitive invertebrates, whpt average score per taxon, whpt number of scoring taxa2201986–2017

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
GaugeEvidenceEstablished
Sandon Brook at Sandon BridgeStated by the publisher — Environment Agency hydrology station register, riverName field — https://environment.data.gov.uk/hydrology/id/stations2026-08-26
SANDON BROOKStated by the publisher on the record this gauge’s observations came from.With the observations
SANDON BROOKStated 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
SignalHeldCounts
Gauges holding a real record3yes, 3 or more
Years spanned63yes, 20 or more
Values held1,317yes, 1000 or more
Distinct measurements7yes, 2 or more
Publishers measuring it2yes, 2 or more
Official identifiers1recorded, not counted

Use this data

Use this data

No bulk download is offered here, which is a licence position rather than a product one: at least one contributing publisher does not permit redistribution. The values can be read on the page, cited, and pointed to at source.

Attribution and citation

Attribution you are required to give

These are conditions of the licences the underlying data is published under. They are obligations to the publishers, not to Hydrionis, and they apply to you directly whether or not you mention Hydrionis at all.

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

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

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

Cite Hydrionis where you rely on the compilation, the normalisation, the eligibility judgements or a chart. Where you use an unmodified published value, the publisher’s attribution is the one that is required; crediting Hydrionis as well is welcome and is not something Hydrionis can require of you.

Recommended, not required. Hydrionis does not claim rights over unmodified public data it relayed, and doing arithmetic on somebody else’s measurements does not make them Hydrionis’s. Cite the version and the access date: the Sandon Brook gauge records changes as publishers release and as methods are revised, and a citation without both cannot be checked later. Full guidance is on cite and reuse.

Where these figures come from

Spatially aggregatedHigh confidence2018

Source: EAHydrology Data Explorer API, EA measure 4e7e6fd4-ee52-4b9d-aac7-626af67cc5ac-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.