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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across County Durham, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bedburn | 0.12 m 31m 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 Bedburn 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 Bedburn Beck above Bedburn on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.
Below Bedburn, its water next reaches Witton Park, a gauge on River Wear, 7.9 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.
None of the storm overflows FloodRadar holds is traced upstream of Bedburn 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.
Within 3 km of one of Bedburn Beck’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
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: © Northumbrian 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.
15 sampling points on the Bedburn Beck and the streams that join it above Bedburn. 2 have a sample from the last 12 months; 12 have any sample banked. Listed from the source down, grouped by the next gauge each one's water reaches.
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanny Sike just upstream confluence with Sharnberry Beck | Nanny Sike | 13 km | 28 Mar 2024 · 2.5 years ago | Oxygen 103.1%Temp 5.3 °CpH 5.01Conductivity 37 µS/cm |
| Sharberry Beck c. 150 m upstream of Nanny Sike | Sharnberry Beck | 13 km | 28 Mar 2024 · 2.5 years ago | Oxygen 102.6%Temp 5.8 °CpH 6.1Conductivity 45 µS/cm |
| Sharnberry Beck c. 200 m downstream of Nanny Sike | Sharnberry Beck | 13 km | 28 Mar 2024 · 2.5 years ago | Oxygen 102.6%Temp 5.6 °CpH 6.33Conductivity 44 µS/cm |
| Tributary of Sharnberry Beck c. 300 downstream of Nanny Sike (adjacent to Sand Bank) | Sharnberry Beck | 13 km | 28 Mar 2024 · 2.5 years ago | Oxygen 89.4%Temp 6.7 °CpH 6.36Conductivity 62 µS/cm |
| Sharnberry Beck c. 500 m downstream of Nanny Sike | Sharnberry Beck | 13 km | 27 Mar 2024 · 2.5 years ago | Oxygen 101.9%Temp 5.1 °CpH 5.93Conductivity 42 µS/cm |
| Spurlswood Beck at Tinker Hills | Spurlswood Beck | 11 km | 21 Aug 2026 · 48 days ago | Oxygen 92.1%Temp 10.2 °CpH 8.26Ammonia 0.027 mg/l |
| Greenless Beck Upstrm confluence of Spurlswood Beck | Spurlswood Beck | 9.3 km | 4 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago | Oxygen 100.5%Temp 4.4 °CpH 8.19Ammonia 0.0022 mg/l |
| Euden Beck at Forest Drive Bridge | Euden Beck | 6.9 km | 2 Apr 2025 · 18 months ago | Oxygen 100.5%Temp 5.7 °CpH 6.09 Mar 2024Conductivity 116 µS/cm |
| Bedburn Beck upstream of Eudon Beck | Bedburn Beck | 6.8 km | Last sampled 18 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Bedburn Beck downstream of Eudon Beck | Bedburn Beck | 6.6 km | 19 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago | pH 7.17 |
| Bedburn Beck at Windy Bank Wood upstream of Large Carpark | Bedburn Beck | 3.9 km | 19 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago | pH 7.11 |
| Dryderdalebeck at Dryderdale Hall | Dryderdale Beck | 3.6 km | Last sampled 12 Dec 2022, before the imported period | |
| Bedburn Beck at Mill House Road Bridge | Bedburn Beck | 2.4 km | 19 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago | pH 7.13 |
| Harthope Beck upstream of Bedburn Beck | Harthope Beck | 1.8 km | Last sampled 18 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Bedburn Beck at Howlea Bridge | Bedburn Beck | 1.1 km | 1 Oct 2026 · 7 days ago | Oxygen 92.9%Temp 11.3 °CpH 8.33Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
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.
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