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Catcliffe Drain water levels

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

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Catcliffe DrainRotherham25.64 mAOD 22m 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 Regulatorstructure35.16 mAOD 22m agoNormal
Woodhouse Mill Regulator0.26 m 22m agoNormal
Woodhouse Mill0.48 m 22m 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. Every overflow traced is listed here, each stretch in full. Back to the short lists →

Above Catcliffe Drain, Catcliffe Drain’s highest gauge7 overflows
  • Horsewood Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Shirtcliff Brook · 3.5 km by river above Catcliffe Drain · 2025: 1 spill, 2.3 h
  • Retford Rd Recreation Ground 3 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 3.0 km by river above Catcliffe Drain · 2025: 53 spills, 185 h
  • Woodhouse Mill WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 3.0 km by river above Catcliffe Drain · 2025: 19 spills, 159 h
  • Retford Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 3.0 km by river above Catcliffe Drain · 2025: 19 spills, 176 h
  • 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
Rother Washlands, above Killamarshjoins the Rother9 overflows
  • Albert Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 12.8 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Station Rd Staveley CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trough Brook Trib Of R.rother · 11.7 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 5 spills, 28 h
  • Works Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 11.4 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 11 spills, 36 h
  • Chesterfield Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 9.9 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Mill Green CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 9.7 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 14 spills, 35 h
  • Staveley WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 6.4 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 90 spills, 1,090 h
  • Renishaw STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Smithy Brook · 4.4 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 60 spills, 679 h
  • Rotherside Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Moss · 2.3 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 1 spill, 0.3 h
  • Eckington CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Moss · 2.0 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 22 spills, 21 h
Rother Washlands, above Eckington Rotherham Roadjoins the Rother2 overflows
  • Bridge Inn Ford CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into The Moss · 3.8 km by river above Eckington Rotherham Road · 2025: 27 spills, 87 h
  • Market Street Cs0 Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into The Moss · 210 m by river above Eckington Rotherham Road · 2025: 6 spills, 1.8 h
Rother Washlands, above Staveleyjoins the Rother5 overflows
  • Stockley WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 7.9 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 45 spills, 449 h
  • Carr Vale No 2 SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 6.0 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 25 spills, 71 h
  • Bolsover WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 5.5 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 76 spills, 540 h
  • Bolsover WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 5.5 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 45 spills, 228 h
  • Shuttlewood CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Hawke Brook · 4.8 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 20 spills, 58 h
Rother Washlands, above Whittingtonjoins the Rother10 overflows
  • Brimmington Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 3.7 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 2 spills, 0.5 h
  • Brimington Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 3.2 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Pottery Lane West CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.9 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 15 spills, 8.5 h
  • Pottery Lane East CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.8 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 39 spills, 123 h
  • Sheffield Road Fire Station CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.7 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • North Brimington Works CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Whitting · 1.4 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 2 spills, 0.5 h
  • Brimington Road North CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Whitting · 1.1 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 60 spills, 324 h
  • Station Road Brimington CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 650 m by river above Whittington · 2025: 11 spills, 23 h
  • Old Whittington (Chesterfield) STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 200 m by river above Whittington · 2025: 60 spills, 764 h
  • Old Whittington (Chesterfield) STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 150 m by river above Whittington · 2025: 29 spills, 494 h
Rother Washlands, above Chesterfield Tapton Bridgejoins the Rother1 overflow
  • Crow Lane Works CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 230 m by river above Chesterfield Tapton Bridge · 2025: 62 spills, 541 h
Rother Washlands, above Hady Hilljoins the Rother11 overflows
  • Heathcote Drive CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Spital Brook · 1.8 km by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 14 spills, 85 h
  • St Augustines Avenue CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.3 km by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 22 spills, 63 h
  • St Augustines Drive CSO Status unknown
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.3 km by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 19 spills, 24 h
  • Main Road Farm CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.3 km by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 43 spills, 185 h
  • Hawthorne Street SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.1 km by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 5 spills, 41 h
  • Derby Road North CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 990 m by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 10 spills, 43 h
  • Hipper Street South CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 880 m by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Valley Crescent CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Spital Brook Culverted · 610 m by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 30 spills, 33 h
  • Hasland Horns Bridge CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 420 m by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 22 spills, 89 h
  • Chesterfield Spital Lane Sw Pmpg St Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 260 m by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 14 spills, 6.8 h
  • Clayton Street South CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 160 m by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 5 spills, 59 h
Rother Washlands, above Sheepbridgejoins the Rother9 overflows
  • Dronfield Lea Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 6.3 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Dronfield Mill Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 5.6 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 7 spills, 9.5 h
  • Dronfield Tip CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 5.2 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 9 spills, 23 h
  • Dronfield WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 4.6 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 42 spills, 287 h
  • Barlow WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Barlow Brook · 4.5 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 43 spills, 184 h
  • Crow Lane Memorial CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 3.4 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 4 spills, 1.0 h
  • Siscar Cottage CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 3.1 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Hardhurst Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 2.1 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 1 spill, 0.3 h
  • Unstone SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 1.9 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 27 spills, 185 h
Rother Washlands, above Chesterfield St Augustinesjoins the Rother4 overflows
  • Storforth Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 910 m by river above Chesterfield St Augustines · 2025: 25 spills, 71 h
  • Lincoln Street CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 380 m by river above Chesterfield St Augustines · 2025: 7 spills, 4.8 h
  • Derby Road 242 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother Via Sws · 300 m by river above Chesterfield St Augustines · 2025: 13 spills, 5.3 h · reaches the river through a sewer, so where it enters is approximate
  • Derby Road Garage CSO Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 110 m by river above Chesterfield St Augustines · 2025: 10 spills, 49 h
Rother Washlands, above Chesterfield Park Road Bridgejoins the Rother9 overflows
  • Bobbinmill Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 1.8 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 57 spills, 339 h
  • Old Road Chesterfield CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 1.5 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Tbc When Permit Issued Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tbc When Permit Issued · 1.3 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 18 spills, 15 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • SSO At Junction Of Ashgate Road And Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Holme Brook · 1.3 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 45 spills, 104 h
  • Church View CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 1.3 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 7 spills, 3.0 h
  • Chatsworth Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 1.0 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 17 spills, 23 h
  • Spring Bank Road CSO No live feed
    Yorkshire Water · into Holme Brook · 770 m by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 4 spills, 1.0 h
  • Dock Walk CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 570 m by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 13 spills, 49 h
  • West Bars Roundabout CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Holme Brook / River Hipper · 460 m by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 26 spills, 62 h
Rother Washlands, above Chesterfieldjoins the Rother5 overflows
  • Bulls Head CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 3.6 km by river above Chesterfield · 2025: 25 spills, 62 h
  • Hipper Hall CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of The River Hipper · 3.2 km by river above Chesterfield · 2025: 20 spills, 40 h
  • Yws Unknown Sites Default Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 2.7 km by river above Chesterfield · 2025: 25 spills, 70 h
  • SSO At Oakfield Avenue Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 780 m by river above Chesterfield · 2025: 53 spills, 225 h
  • Chatsworth Road N471 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 190 m by river above Chesterfield · 2025: 30 spills, 67 h
Rother Washlands, above Chesterfield Avenue Washlandsjoins the Rother6 overflows
  • Danesmoor WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 7.4 km by river above Chesterfield Avenue Washlands · 2025: 85 spills, 1,004 h
  • Danesmoor WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 7.4 km by river above Chesterfield Avenue Washlands · 2025: 48 spills, 176 h
  • Hall Terrace Clay Cross & High Haze Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 5.8 km by river above Chesterfield Avenue Washlands · 2025: 20 spills, 16 h
  • Hall Terrace Clay Cross & High Haze Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 5.8 km by river above Chesterfield Avenue Washlands · 2025: 42 spills, 98 h
  • Tupton WwTW Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into Redleadmill Brook · 2.7 km by river above Chesterfield Avenue Washlands · 2025: 35 spills, 224 h
  • Avenue Farm CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.5 km by river above Chesterfield Avenue Washlands · 2025: 66 spills, 330 h
Rother Washlands, above Dronfieldjoins the Rother1 overflow
  • Dronfield Yard CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 190 m by river above Dronfield · 2025: 14 spills, 14 h
Rother Washlands, above Chesterfield Calow Lanejoins the Rother1 overflow
  • Temple Normanton STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Muster Brook · 3.4 km by river above Chesterfield Calow Lane · 2025: 44 spills, 284 h
Rother Washlands, above Dronfield Damjoins the Rother2 overflows
  • Greenhill Park Pavillion CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of River Drone · 2.2 km by river above Dronfield Dam · 2025: 3 spills, 28 h
  • Greenhill Park CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of River Drone · 1.5 km by river above Dronfield Dam · 2025: 3 spills, 30 h
River Rother, above Woodhouse Mill Regulatorjoins Catcliffe Drain above Catcliffe Drain9 overflows
  • Alport Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of Shire Brook · 5.7 km by river above Woodhouse Mill Regulator · 2025: 35 spills, 63 h
  • Normanton Spring CSO Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into Shire Brook · 5.6 km by river above Woodhouse Mill Regulator · 2025: 10 spills, 8.3 h
  • Dyke Vale Road 1 CSO Status unknown
    Yorkshire Water · into Shire Brook · 5.2 km by river above Woodhouse Mill Regulator · 2025: 27 spills, 46 h
  • Dyke Vale Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Shire Brook In Culvert · 4.5 km by river above Woodhouse Mill Regulator · 2025: 7 spills, 4.3 h
  • Carr Forge Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of Shire Brook · 3.6 km by river above Woodhouse Mill Regulator · 2025: 23 spills, 21 h
  • Delves Road No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Shire Brook · 3.3 km by river above Woodhouse Mill Regulator · 2025: 4 spills, 1.0 h
  • 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

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
  • Aughton (Treeton Lane) SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of Ulley Brook · 2.7 km from Catcliffe Drain in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 21 spills, 86 h
  • Retford Road No 2 CSO No live feed
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 2.8 km from Catcliffe Drain in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 24 spills, 39 h
  • Woodhouse Sewer Network - 3 Csos Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Shirtcliff Brook · 3.0 km from Catcliffe Drain in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 1 spill, 0.5 h
  • Brunswick Primary School CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Shirtcliff Brook · 3.0 km from Catcliffe Drain in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 7 spills, 2.8 h

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.