Water Levels Posts plus Twitter Feed

[Jay Oram]

Is it possible to get a twitter feed going for south wales??

I've used the lakes and north wales one and think they are useful, now im moving to south Wales so would be nice to have this again.

:-)

[wakey]

haha. you'd be lucky mate ! the welsh can't even seem to provide a simple answer to a simple question of water levels when posted on here ! it's all a bit hush hush.

[jmmoxon]

That's coz by the time it's posted, it will have changed...

Mike

[Jay Oram]

Ok, well I'll just watch the weather really closely and build up a bunch of people around south wales who live near rivers lol.

How about EA gauges, any useful ones?

[Jim Pullen]

I was flicking through this region and noticed a request for a twitter feed.

I'd suggest using this topic for all water level posts from now on to prevent creating loads of separate ones. It'll also help if people note what the EA gauges are/were doing when they paddle a section in order to help calibrate them.

To keep things simple just use the region "swales" rather than separate rivers. So to send in a tweet, simply start with #ukrgb, swales.

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[The Drowned Fish]

Hi,

Paddled the Mellte today at what seemed like a good level, not too high not to low. But I've only ever paddled it at really low levels before so I guess that's a bit subjective. All the drops went and you could float over all the bits in between without it being too pushy.

Anyway for reference the EA gauge below read 0.68m at 1030 and 0.74m at 1645

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/riverstation.aspx?StationId=4121&RegionId=8&AreaId=9&CatchmentId=49

We paddled between 1010 and 1300ish (we were a bit slow for various reasons). Anyway hope that this might help estimating whether it's good to go or not.

Cheers
Simon

[wakey]

handy info. good one

[wakey]

what would you say was roughly the lowest you could run it ?

[The Drowned Fish]

For reference it looked like this -



More pics here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=18578&id=100000684669277&l=174d06ff08

Hope that's helpful.

Cheers
Simon

[wezzzy]

what would you say was roughly the lowest you could run it ?

On the EA guage I would say anything less than 50 is going to be scrapey in places.
Last time we did it (a few weeks back) the guage said 65 at 0600 and by the time we got there the water was coming nicely over the ledge at the 15foot slot (our normal get in)
http://www.facebook.com/wezzzy#!/photo. ... 1393107504
(I should learn to put proper pics up)

If you get there when the water is just down the slot its a long scrape.
http://www.facebook.com/wezzzy#!/photo. ... =746725443
(anything lower than this you might as well walk back to the cars)

[wakey]

thanks wezzy

[nigelwyn]

This may be of use
I did a trip on the Usk from Sennybridge to Brecon on the 27th of October 2010.
About 30 minutes after this picture was taken we passed the Environment Agency Station at Trallong.
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/ho ... ionId=4050

The level was 0.6m. This tied in with the data on the website at the time. There was easily enough water to paddle with only the occasional 'bump' on a rock but you are sure to hit something on that section at whatever water level.

This picture was taken at the third drop after Sennybridge, and as you can see there is still a tree blocking the river right line.

[Ashley_Ainsworth]

Paddled the Upper Irfon today, it was at a mid low level and dropping as we got on.

Level at the washpool in relation to the EA monitoring station at Abernant:

[Ashley_Ainsworth]

A nice level, all rocks covered

[Ashley_Ainsworth]

Rising to a high high level- lots of fun, but need to be really careful of trees!

[jmmoxon]

I have collected all other water level reports into either "Tawe/Mellte/Nedd levels" or "Other levels requests" threads as most posts do not refer to gauges, but there is some useful info in amongst them.

Mike

[Dazz501]

Okay, so the river season is starting up again. I have a trip in 2 weekends time. If anybody is passing some of the more basic rivers (Wye, Usk etc.) could you let me know how they are running. If they're not running any other recomendations in the brecons would be great.
Cheers