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Cranleigh Waters water levels

Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across Surrey, updated every 15 minutes.

2stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Flash BridgeAlfold Crossways1.01 mASD 28m agoNormal—
BramleyShalford2.21 mASD 28m agoNormal—

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 the Cranleigh Waters 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, 1 gauge

Littlemead Brook

Joins the Cranleigh Waters above Bramley, no more than 14.6 km by river above Bramley.

Cranleighstructure1.28 mASD 43m agoNormal

Its water passes Bramley and every gauge below it on the Cranleigh Waters.

Where the Cranleigh Waters goes

No gauge below Bramley is known on the river map.

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

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

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 2 not discharging
  • 3 offline or silent: 3 monitor offline, 0 status unknown, 0 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Bramley: 114 spills over 1,623 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 the Cranleigh Waters includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Flash Bridge, the Cranleigh Waters’s highest gauge2 overflows
  • Ockley Road Monitor offline
    Thames Water · into Cobbler's Brook · 12.0 km by river above Flash Bridge · 2025: 9 spills, 63 h
  • Canfold Wood Monitor offline
    Thames Water · into Thornhurst Brook · 7.9 km by river above Flash Bridge · 2025: 13 spills, 82 h
Between Flash Bridge and Bramley2 overflows
  • Cranleigh STW, Cranleigh, Surrey Monitor offline
    Thames Water · into Cranleigh Waters · 11.2 km by river above Bramley · 2025: 80 spills, 1,436 h
  • Bramley Not discharging
    Thames Water · into Hascombe Stream · 2.3 km by river above Bramley · 2025: 12 spills, 42 h
Littlemead Brook, above Cranleighjoins the Cranleigh Waters above Bramley1 overflow
  • Ewhurst Road Not discharging
    Thames Water · into Littlemead Brook · 210 m by river above Cranleigh · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Godalming Wastewater Treatment Work Not discharging
    Thames Water · into River Wey · 820 m from Bramley in a straight line · not connected to this gauge on the river map · 2025: 10 spills, 143 h
  • Littlemead Industrial Estate CSO Monitor offline
    Thames Water · into Trib Of Cranleigh Waters · 2.1 km from Flash Bridge in a straight line · several watercourses close by, nothing to choose between them · 2025: 16 spills, 183 h
  • CSO At Knowle Lane Not discharging
    Thames Water · into Cranleigh Waters/Littlemead · 2.3 km from Flash Bridge in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 9 spills, 70 h

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: © Thames 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.

1 sampling point on the Cranleigh Waters and the streams that join it above Bramley. 1 has a sample from the last 12 months; 1 has any sample banked. Listed from the source down, grouped by the next gauge each one's water reaches.

Above Bramley Cranleigh Waters 1 point
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Cranleigh Waters at Elmbridge, CranleighCranleigh Waters12 km15 Jul 2026 · 3 months agoOxygen 49% Jun 2026Temp 22.5 °C Jun 2026pH 7.45 Jun 2026Ammonia 0.15 mg/l Jun 2026

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.