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Arkle Beck water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across North Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
ReethFremington-0.04 m 45m agoLow—

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.

Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins Arkle Beck above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.

No gauged tributary joins Arkle Beck above Reeth on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where Arkle Beck goes

Below Reeth, its water next reaches Grinton Bridge, a gauge on River Swale, 1.0 km 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.

Streams without a gauge

Named streams on the river map that flow into Arkle Beck and have no gauge of their own. Each has a page with what is known about it: the next gauge downstream, and any storm overflows or water-sampling points placed on it.

Storm overflows upstream

None of the storm overflows FloodRadar holds is traced upstream of Reeth on the river map. That is not the same as none: the map leaves out many small streams and culverts, so an overflow it cannot place may still drain here, and not every company publishes every overflow.

Near these gauges, connection not known

Within 3 km of one of Arkle Beck’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.

  • Reeth/Fremington/Grinton STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Arkle Beck · 140 m from Reeth in a straight line · too close to Reeth to say which side · 2025: 43 spills, 76 h

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.

Water samples

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.

14 sampling points on the Arkle Beck and the streams that join it above Reeth. 9 have a sample from the last 12 months; 13 have any sample banked. Listed from the source down, grouped by the next gauge each one's water reaches.

Above Reeth Arkle Beck 14 points, 13 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Roe Beck upstream of Roe Beck BridgeRoe Beck12 km10 Sep 2026 · 28 days agoOxygen 106.3%Temp 14.1 °CpH 8.95Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
Arkle Beck upstream of WhawArkle Beck10 km3 Dec 2024 · 22 months agoOxygen 101.8%Temp 4.8 °CpH 7.96Ammonia below 0.002 mg/l
Shaw Beck at Shaw FarmShaw Beck9.8 km1 Mar 2024 · 2.6 years agopH 7.9
Whaw Gill at WhawWhaw Gill9.7 km15 Jun 2026 · 4 months agoOxygen 101.8%Temp 13.9 °CpH 8.2Conductivity 179 µS/cm
Arkle Beck upstream of Whaw BridgeArkle Beck9.7 km15 Jun 2026 · 4 months agoOxygen 101.4%Temp 13.8 °CpH 8.2Conductivity 178 µS/cm
Arkle Beck downstream of Whaw GillArkle Beck9.5 km17 Apr 2024 · 2.5 years agoOxygen 103.3%Temp 7.9 °CpH 8.09Conductivity 115.7 µS/cm
Arkle Beck upstream of Eskeleth BridgeArkle Beck7.6 km15 Jun 2026 · 4 months agoOxygen 102.5%Temp 12.2 °CpH 8.2Conductivity 192 µS/cm
Shaw Beck upstream of Arkle Beck confluenceShaw Beck7.6 km15 Jun 2026 · 4 months agoOxygen 100.9%Temp 11.4 °CpH 8.2Conductivity 275 µS/cm
Arkle Beck upstream of CG Terrace sewage treatment worksArkle Beck7.2 kmLast sampled 14 Mar 2011, before the imported period
Arkle Beck upstream of LangthwaiteArkle Beck6.7 km1 Sep 2026 · 37 days agoOxygen 104.5%Temp 13.8 °CpH 8.64Ammonia 0.0095 mg/l
Sun Gutter LevelSlack Wife Gill5.7 km19 Dec 2024 · 22 months agoOxygen 92%Temp 7.7 °CpH 7.81Conductivity 290 µS/cm
Arkle Beck upstream of Booze Wood LevelArkle Beck5.0 km15 Jun 2026 · 4 months agoOxygen 101%Oxygen 12 mg/l Mar 2026Temp 11.2 °CpH 8.2
Arkle Beck downstream of Slei GillArkle Beck4.5 km15 Jun 2026 · 4 months agoOxygen 101.1%Temp 11.5 °CpH 8.1Conductivity 275 µS/cm
Arkle Beck at ReethArkle Beck0.1 km8 Sep 2026 · 30 days agoOxygen 105.2%Oxygen 12.7 mg/l Mar 2025Temp 13.3 °CpH 8.5

Distances are along the river to the gauge named. England's samples only.

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.