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Environment Agency monitoring station

Wearhead

Killhope Burn · Wearhead · Wear

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RiverKillhope BurnWatercourse named by the publisher
CatchmentWearEnvironment Agency catchment context
Station ID024010Use this when checking the official source

Published location

Where is Wearhead?

This locator uses the coordinates in the approved source record. It shows geographic context, not a site boundary, safety zone or property-risk area.

54.753822, -2.225251

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What this reading tells you

It is the latest value published for this monitoring instrument at the stated observation time. The unit published unit is retained from the Environment Agency measure record.

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Technical record and provenance
Station reference
024010
Station opened
1 Jan 1999
Latitude
54.753822
Longitude
-2.225251
Source
Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API
API retrieval
30 Aug 2026, 20:48
Raw measure identifier
http://environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/id/measures/024010-level-stage-i-15_min-m

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