Floodway · New South Wales · Beardy River

Beardy River at Haystack

Live river level · updated 44 min ago416008

1.90 m ▼

No flood classes yet · falling 2 cm/h

Peak watch · no gauges upstream of this one on the main stem.

River height at Haystack

Beardy River at Haystack is 1.90 m, falling 2 cm/h, as at Sun, 1 Nov, 9:15 pm.

Level1.90 m

Trendfalling 2 cm/h and quickening

vs normalno recent baseline

River system

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25 Oct – 1 NovNo classes1 not reportingDot colour is the gauge’s last known flood class — never depth. Hover a gauge for its reading age.

Level history

Hover the chart to read any past height.

Historical peaks

When	Peak	Class

The biggest separate floods here in the last 5 years. Each row is one event's highest reading. Crests within a fortnight of each other are one flood arriving and receding, not two. Pick one to lay it over the chart.

Nearby gauges

Dakabinno datano data

Questions about this gauge

What is the river height at Haystack now?: Beardy River at Haystack is 1.90 m, falling 2 cm/h, as at Sun, 1 Nov, 9:15 pm.
Where is the Haystack river gauge?: It is gauge 416008 on the Beardy River, at Haystack, New South Wales. Floodway shows its readings; it does not own or maintain the gauge.
Is more water on its way to Haystack?: Not according to the gauges upstream: none of them has risen while this one has stayed level. Floodway compares this gauge with the ones above it and reports what their shared record says about how long past rises took to arrive. It does not forecast, so this is a statement about now and not about later.
What is the highest the Beardy River has been at Haystack?: The highest reading in Floodway’s record for this gauge is 2.09 m, on 26 October 2026. Earlier or larger floods may predate what this gauge has recorded.

Floodway is decision support, not an official warning service. For warnings, see the Bureau of Meteorology. What the flood classes mean →

About this gauge

Beardy at Haystack (gauge 416008) measures the Beardy River in New South Wales. Downstream, the next verified gauge is Dakabin. More gauges on this river are known but awaiting verification, and travel-time estimates will appear once reach calibration has been reviewed.

Floodway shows levels from the Bureau of Meteorology’s national water data service, compared against the Bureau’s flood classifications for this location. During events, always follow official BoM flood warnings and VicSES advice.

Heights at this gauge are local gauge height (LGH) — gauge zero sits at 404.845 m. Local gauge height is measured from a datum set at this site, so a reading here is not directly comparable with one at another gauge. Drainage basin: BORDER RIVERS.

Named floods

Peaks are computed from the readings stored for this gauge over each named event window — verify against official records before relying on them (docs/VERIFICATION.md §5).

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Questions about this gauge

What is the river height at Haystack now?

Beardy River at Haystack is 1.90 m, falling 2 cm/h, as at Sun, 1 Nov, 9:15 pm.

Where is the Haystack river gauge?

It is gauge 416008 on the Beardy River, at Haystack, New South Wales. Floodway shows its readings; it does not own or maintain the gauge.

Is more water on its way to Haystack?

Not according to the gauges upstream: none of them has risen while this one has stayed level. Floodway compares this gauge with the ones above it and reports what their shared record says about how long past rises took to arrive. It does not forecast, so this is a statement about now and not about later.

What is the highest the Beardy River has been at Haystack?

The highest reading in Floodway’s record for this gauge is 2.09 m, on 26 October 2026. Earlier or larger floods may predate what this gauge has recorded.

Floodway is decision support, not an official warning service. For warnings, see the Bureau of Meteorology. What the flood classes mean →

About this gauge