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Batley Beck water levels

Live levels from 3 monitoring stations across West Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.

3stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Batley Savile StreetstructureBatley Savile Street0.31 m 1h agoNormal—

On other watercourses

These gauges are filed under the Batley Beck, but the river map places them on another watercourse, so they are not in Batley Beck’s order above.

Batley Carlinghowon Carlinghow BrookBatley Carlinghow (up stream)0.21 m 1h agoNormal—
Its water joins Batley Beck above Batley Savile Street, 2.4 km by river.
Birstall Smithieson Smithies Beck—0.03 m 1h agoNormal—
Its water joins Batley Beck above Batley Savile Street, 4.4 km by river.

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 Batley 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.

1 gauged tributary, 2 gauges

Carlinghow Brook name from the river map

Joins Batley Beck above Batley Savile Street, its highest gauge, no more than 2.4 km by river above Batley Savile Street.

Batley Carlinghow0.21 m 1h agoNormal

Its water passes every gauge on Batley Beck, from Batley Savile Street down.

Gauged streams joining Carlinghow Brook

Where Batley Beck goes

Below Batley Savile Street, its water next reaches Horbury, a gauge on River Calder, 8.7 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 Batley 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.

  • Howley Beck (joins about 1.3 km above Batley Savile Street)

Storm overflows upstream

5 storm overflows are traced upstream of Batley Savile Street, Batley Beck’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Batley Beck itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 5 not discharging
  • 0 offline or silent: 0 monitor offline, 0 status unknown, 0 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Batley Savile Street: 92 spills over 251 hours in total, across all 5.

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 Batley Beck includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Batley Savile Street, Batley Beck’s highest gauge4 overflows
  • Timothy Lane Tank CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Howley Beck · 2.9 km by river above Batley Savile Street · 2025: 7 spills, 51 h
  • Batley Mount Street CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Batley Beck · 380 m by river above Batley Savile Street · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Well Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Batley Beck · 370 m by river above Batley Savile Street · 2025: 4 spills, 1.5 h
  • Warwick Road No2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Batley Beck · 370 m by river above Batley Savile Street · 2025: 69 spills, 188 h
Smithies Beck, above Birstall Smithiesjoins Carlinghow Brook1 overflow
  • Birstall CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Smithies Beck · 110 m by river above Birstall Smithies · 2025: 12 spills, 11 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Upper Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Batley Carr Dyke Culverted · 760 m from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 17 spills, 14 h
  • Batley Grange Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Greenhill Dike Culverted · 1.1 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 2 spills, 0.5 h
  • Field Lane Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of Batley Beck · 1.3 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Mayman Lane Tank CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of Batley Carr · 1.7 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Not Matched In Ea Consents Database Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Not Matched In Ea Consents Database · 1.7 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 11 spills, 56 h
  • Melton Street CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Carlinghow Beck · 2.1 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Syke Ing No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Chickenley Beck · 2.1 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · its water cannot be followed on the map · 2025: 1 spill, 0.3 h
  • Yws Unknown Sites Default Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into Varies With Outlet · 2.1 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Yws Unknown Sites Default Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Varies With Outlet · 2.1 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 2 spills, 0.8 h
  • Brewery Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Culverted Trib Of River Calder · 2.6 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 14 spills, 51 h
  • Chapel Lane No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trib Of River Spen · 2.8 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 26 spills, 28 h
  • Pildacre Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Pildacre Mill Beck · 2.8 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 28 spills, 94 h
  • Batley Road No 2 CSO Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of River Spen · 2.8 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Tbc When Permit Issued Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tbc When Permit Issued · 2.9 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 7 spills, 4.3 h
  • High Street Heckmondwike No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Culverted Trib Of Spen River · 2.9 km from Batley Savile Street in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 35 spills, 38 h

2 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.

14 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Batley Beck’s lowest gauge or on another river, so not listed.

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.

2 sampling points on the Batley Beck and the streams that join it above Batley Savile Street. 0 have a sample from the last 12 months; 0 have any sample banked. Listed from the source down, grouped by the next gauge each one's water reaches.

Above Birstall Smithies Batley Beck 1 point, 0 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Smithies Beck at Bradford Road - BirstallSmithies Beck0.7 kmLast sampled 15 Dec 2006, before the imported period
Above Batley Savile Street Batley Beck 1 point, 0 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Howley Beck downstream of Lady Ann DikeHowley Beck2.0 kmLast sampled 21 Sep 2000, before the imported period

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.