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Catcliffe Drain water levels

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

1stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Catcliffe DrainRotherham25.64 mAOD 31m 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 Catcliffe Drain 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.

1 gauged tributary, 20 gauges

River Rother

Joins Catcliffe Drain above Catcliffe Drain, its highest gauge, no more than 3.1 km by river above Catcliffe Drain.

Meadowgate Regulatorstructure35.17 mAOD 31m agoNormal
Woodhouse Mill Regulator0.26 m 31m agoNormal
Woodhouse Mill0.49 m 31m agoNormal

Its water passes every gauge on Catcliffe Drain, from Catcliffe Drain down.

Gauged streams joining the Rother

Where Catcliffe Drain goes

Below Catcliffe Drain, its water next reaches Canklow Regulator, a gauge on River Rother, 2.4 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.

Storm overflows upstream

91 storm overflows are traced upstream of Catcliffe Drain, Catcliffe Drain’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Catcliffe Drain itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 84 not discharging
  • 7 offline or silent: 4 monitor offline, 2 status unknown, 1 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Catcliffe Drain: 2,105 spills over 11,452 hours in total, across all 91.

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 Catcliffe Drain 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 →

Above Catcliffe Drain, Catcliffe Drain’s highest gauge7 overflows
  • Yws Unknown Sites Default Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Rother · 2.6 km by river above Catcliffe Drain · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Woodhouse Mill WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 2.5 km by river above Catcliffe Drain · 2025: 50 spills, 330 h
  • Treeton Mill Lane Sew Pumping Stn Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 710 m by river above Catcliffe Drain · 2025: 29 spills, 120 h

and 4 more: show all 7 overflows on this stretch → All above Catcliffe Drain, nearest first →

River Rother, and the streams that join itjoins Catcliffe Drain above Catcliffe Drain84 overflows
  • Beighton STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Shire Brook · 2.1 km by river above Woodhouse Mill Regulator · 2025: 11 spills, 7.0 h
  • Tulip Tree Close CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.8 km by river above Woodhouse Mill Regulator · 2025: 10 spills, 13 h
  • Greengates Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of The River Rother · 1.7 km by river above Woodhouse Mill Regulator · 2025: 8 spills, 6.8 h

and 81 more: show all 84 overflows on the Rother and the streams that join it → All above Woodhouse Mill, nearest first →

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Highfield Lane Orgreave SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Handsworth Beck · 1.7 km from Catcliffe Drain in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 1 spill, 0.5 h
  • Retford Road Orrgreave No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Orgreave Common Drain · 2.1 km from Catcliffe Drain in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 26 spills, 24 h
  • Handsworth Road No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Car Brook · 2.7 km from Catcliffe Drain in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 30 spills, 33 h

4 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.

3 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Catcliffe Drain’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.

74 sampling points on the Catcliffe Drain and the streams that join it above Catcliffe Drain, and below it. 13 have a sample from the last 12 months; 22 have any sample banked.

Sampled most recently, anywhere on Catcliffe Drain and its streams:

Where, from the source downSampling pointsNewest sample
River Rother and its streamsjoins Catcliffe Drain above Catcliffe Drain71 points20 sampled30 Sep 2026
Above Catcliffe Drain2 points1 sampled22 Aug 2024
Below the lowest gauge1 point11 Aug 2026

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.