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Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across West Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradford Greenside | 0.86 m 49m ago | Low | ||
| 7.0 km by river | ||||
| Shipley | 0.15 m 49m ago | Low | ||
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 Bradford 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 Bradford Beck above Shipley on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.
Below Shipley, its water next reaches Apperley Bridge, a gauge on River Aire, 7.4 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.
28 storm overflows are traced upstream of Shipley, Bradford Beck’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Bradford Beck itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Shipley: 519 spills over 1,620 hours in total, across all 28.
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 Bradford Beck includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of Bradford Beck’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
16 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.
17 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Bradford 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.
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 Bradford Beck and the streams that join it above Shipley, and below it. 2 have a sample from the last 12 months; 3 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pinch Beck below Alderscholes Lane | Pinch Beck | 5.4 km | Last sampled 29 Sep 2000, before the imported period | |
| Pinch Beck at Green Lane - Thornton | Pinch Beck | 4.4 km | Last sampled 29 Sep 2000, before the imported period | |
| Hole Bottom Beck at Low Lane - Clayton | Hole Bottom Beck | 3.5 km | Last sampled 29 Sep 2000, before the imported period | |
| Pitty Beck at Allerton Lane | Pitty Beck | 3.4 km | Last sampled 29 Sep 2000, before the imported period | |
| Chellow Dean Beck below Allerton Road | Chellow Dean Beck | 1.8 km | Last sampled 24 Oct 2000, before the imported period | |
| Pitty Beck upstream of Leaventhorpe Lane | Pitty Beck | 1.7 km | 16 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago | Oxygen 100.4%Temp 8.6 °CpH 7.9Ammonia 0.012 mg/l |
| Pitty Beck at Leaventhorpe Lane | Pitty Beck | 1.5 km | 15 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago | Oxygen 93.8%Temp 12.3 °CpH 7.98Ammonia 0.066 mg/l |
| Clayton Beck upstream of Pitty Beck confluence | Clayton Beck | 1.4 km | 15 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago | Oxygen 100.1%Temp 12.4 °CpH 8.31Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Chellow Dean Beck-Behind Bullroyd Lane | Chellow Dean Beck | 0.5 km | Last sampled 7 Aug 2000, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradford Beck upstream of West Brook Beck confluence | Bradford Beck | 5.7 km | Last sampled 4 Jan 2007, before the imported period | |
| Bradford Beck downstream of West Brook Beck confluence | Bradford Beck | 5.7 km | Last sampled 4 Jan 2007, before the imported period | |
| Bradford Beck - Power Station Site | Bradford Beck | 3.5 km | Last sampled 5 May 2009, before the imported period | |
| Trapsyke Beck | Bradford Beck | 1.8 km | Last sampled 5 Mar 2009, before the imported period | |
| Red Beck at Dam upstream of Bradford Beck | Red Beck | 1.0 km | Last sampled 4 Jan 2007, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradford Beck-Shipley | Bradford Beck | 0.1 km | Last sampled 22 Mar 2022, 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.
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