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Environment Agency monitoring station

How Bank

Skirting Beck · Egremont · Derwent West Cumbria and Duddon

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RiverSkirting BeckWatercourse named by the publisher
CatchmentDerwent West Cumbria and DuddonEnvironment Agency catchment context
Station ID744132Use this when checking the official source

Published location

Where is How Bank?

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

54.485859, -3.538736

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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.

This page does not currently have an approved typical range or warning threshold for this measure, so it does not label the reading as high, normal or low.

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Technical record and provenance
Station reference
744132
Station opened
29 Apr 2014, 01:00
Latitude
54.485859
Longitude
-3.538736
Source
Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API
API retrieval
31 Aug 2026, 02:59

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