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Live levels from 5 monitoring stations across North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oulton St Aidans | -0.02 m 1h ago | Low | ||
| 4.8 km by river | ||||
| Mickletown Ingstidal | 0.30 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 170 m by river | ||||
| Allerton Ings | 0.03 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 7.8 km by river | ||||
| Fairburn Sluices | 0.36 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 9.0 km by river | ||||
| West Holme Washlandstidal | 0.56 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
Stations are listed from source to mouth as the water flows, traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers) and the Environment Agency’s own links between its gauges. A distance “by river” is along the river, and is shown only where the map traces the path.
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Aire Washlands above one of its gauges, from the source down. The river map knows where gauges are, not every stream, so a tributary without a gauge is not listed here.
Each tributary’s water passes the gauge it joins above and every gauge below it on the Aire Washlands, and none of the gauges above where it joins. For each, the gauge nearest the Aire Washlands is shown; its own page lists the rest.
Joins the Aire Washlands above Oulton St Aidans, its highest gauge, no more than 7.8 km by river above Oulton St Aidans. Nearest the Aire Washlands: Leeds Knostrop Weir Flood Alleviation Scheme Normal; 36 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Broughton Beck, Eller Beck, Eastburn Beck, Silsden Beck, River Worth, Bradford Beck, Oil Mill Beck, Wortley Beck and Meanwood Beck.
Joins the Aire Washlands above Oulton St Aidans, its highest gauge, no more than 9.0 km by river above Oulton St Aidans. Nearest the Aire Washlands: Halton Normal; 3 more gauges further up.
Joins the Aire Washlands between Oulton St Aidans and Mickletown Ings, no more than 6.1 km by river above Mickletown Ings. Nearest the Aire Washlands: Farrer Lane Normal; 1 more gauge further up. Gauged streams joining it: Lingwell Gate Beck.
Joins the Aire Washlands above Mickletown Ings, no more than 4.5 km by river above Mickletown Ings. Nearest the Aire Washlands: Oulton Lemonroyd Normal.
Joins the Aire Washlands above Fairburn Sluices, no more than 6.6 km by river above Fairburn Sluices. Nearest the Aire Washlands: Castleford Normal; 54 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: River Calder.
Joins the Aire Washlands above West Holme Washlands, no more than 2.4 km by river above West Holme Washlands. Nearest the Aire Washlands: Knottingley Bank Dole Lock Normal; 1 more gauge further up.
Below West Holme Washlands, its water next reaches Beal Weir Bridge, a gauge on River Aire, 910 m by river downstream.
Tributaries and where they join are traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers, edition 2026-04) and the Environment Agency’s links between its gauges. The map holds distances between gauges, not the junctions themselves, so a junction is placed between two gauges, and no further up than the tributary’s own lowest gauge. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
557 storm overflows are traced upstream of West Holme Washlands, the Aire Washlands’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Aire Washlands itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of West Holme Washlands: 14,874 spills over 75,700 hours in total, across the 555 that have a figure. 2 had no usable monitor data that year.
Each overflow is listed in the stretch above the first gauge its water reaches, from the source down, as on the Gauges tab. A stretch of the Aire Washlands includes the smaller streams that join it there. Where a stretch or a tributary has more than 4, the 3 discharging now or nearest its gauge are listed, the rest are counted, and every one is in that gauge’s “Upstream of here” list. Show every overflow in every stretch →
and 6 more: show all 9 overflows on this stretch → All above Oulton St Aidans, nearest first →
and 225 more: show all 228 overflows on the Aire and the streams that join it → All above Leeds Knostrop Weir Flood Alleviation Scheme, nearest first →
and 5 more: show all 8 overflows on Wyke Beck and the streams that join it → All above Halton, nearest first →
and 10 more: show all 13 overflows on this stretch → All above Fairburn Sluices, nearest first →
and 284 more: show all 287 overflows on the Aire and the streams that join it → All above Castleford, nearest first →
and 3 more: show all 6 overflows on the Aire and the streams that join it → All above Knottingley Bank Dole Lock, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the Aire Washlands’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
6 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.
A status is the water company’s own monitor: it says whether an overflow is discharging, never how much or why, and a spill does not by itself explain a change in a river level. A status older than two hours is shown as unknown. Annual figures are the official returns: 12/24-hour spills for England and Wales, overflow events for Scotland (Scottish Water counts differently, so the two cannot be compared). “No data” means the monitor produced no usable data that year, not zero. Overflows are placed on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels: an overflow the map cannot place may still drain here. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Sewage in Britain’s rivers →
Live status: © Yorkshire Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual figures for England: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Dated samples taken by the Environment Agency, not live readings. Results are published days to months after the sample is taken, and many points are sampled only a few times a year, or have not been sampled for years.
301 sampling points on the Aire Washlands and the streams that join it above West Holme Washlands. 73 have a sample from the last 12 months; 104 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Aire Washlands and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| River Aire and its streamsjoins the Aire Washlands above Oulton St Aidans | 150 points51 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| River Aire and its streamsjoins the Aire Washlands above Fairburn Sluices | 122 points41 sampled | 17 Sep 2026 |
| Oulton Beck and its streamsjoins the Aire Washlands above Mickletown Ings | 4 points1 sampled | 17 Sep 2026 |
| Wyke Beck and its streamsjoins the Aire Washlands above Oulton St Aidans | 3 points0 sampled | none banked |
| Above Oulton St Aidans | 6 points4 sampled | 4 Aug 2026 |
| Above Oulton LemonroydRiver Aire · joins the Aire Washlands above Mickletown Ings | 1 point | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Mickletown Ings | 4 points3 sampled | 23 Sep 2026 |
| Above Allerton Ings | 1 point | 22 Jun 2026 |
| Above Fairburn Sluices | 5 points1 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Ferrybridge LockRiver Aire · joins the Aire Washlands above West Holme Washlands | 5 points1 sampled | 4 Mar 2025 |
England's samples only. Each count opens the list of those points, nearest first, with the date of each one’s latest sample (the gauge’s “Upstream of here” list).
FloodRadar does not grade these results: there is no overall score, and official river classifications are a separate dataset. A sample taken downstream of an overflow does not by itself show where anything in it came from. River connections and distances are traced on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels.
Water samples: Environment Agency Water Quality Archive, © Environment Agency and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
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