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Dacre Beck water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Westmorland and Furness, updated every 15 minutes.

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0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Dacre BridgeDacre0.30 m 32m 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.

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Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins Dacre 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 Dacre Beck above Dacre Bridge on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where Dacre Beck goes

Below Dacre Bridge, its water next reaches Eamont Bridge Farm, a gauge on River Eamont, 9.1 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.

Streams without a gauge

Named streams on the river map that flow into Dacre Beck and have no gauge of their own. Each has a page with what is known about it: the next gauge downstream, and any storm overflows or water-sampling points placed on it.

Storm overflows upstream

1 storm overflow is traced upstream of Dacre Bridge, Dacre Beck’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Dacre Beck itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

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

Official figures for 2025, for the overflow traced upstream of Dacre Bridge: 0 spills over 0 hours.

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 Dacre Beck includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Dacre Bridge, Dacre Beck’s highest gauge1 overflow

2 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Dacre 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: © United Utilities 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.

8 sampling points on the Dacre Beck and the streams that join it above Dacre Bridge, 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.

Above Dacre Bridge Dacre Beck 7 points, 3 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Lowthwaite Beck at NY409236Lowthwaite Beck9.0 kmLast sampled 13 Mar 2014, before the imported period
Mell Fell Beck at NY407244Mellfell Beck8.1 kmLast sampled 13 Mar 2014, before the imported period
Thackthwaite Beck near NabendThackthwaite Beck7.1 kmLast sampled 13 Mar 2014, before the imported period
Thackthwaite BeckThackthwaite Beck6.5 km7 Nov 2024 · 23 months agoOxygen 98%Temp 9.7 °CpH 7.7Ammonia 0.011 mg/l
Skitwath Beck Phage Tracing (Hutton)Skitwath Beck4.0 km11 Sep 2026 · 27 days agoOxygen 100.7%Temp 12.9 °CpH 8.17Ammonia 0.0048 mg/l
Skitwath Beck at HuttonSkitwath Beck3.9 kmLast sampled 3 Mar 2022, before the imported period
Dacre Beck near Sparket MillDacre Beck3.3 km11 Sep 2026 · 27 days agoOxygen 98.6%Temp 12.9 °CpH 8.07Ammonia 0.034 mg/l
Below Dacre Bridge 1 point, 0 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Below the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Dacre Beck at A592Dacre Beck2.4 kmLast sampled 2 Mar 2020, 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.