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Eller Beck water levels

Live levels from 3 monitoring stations across North Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.

3stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Skipton Medical CentreSkipton Medical Centre0.05 m 1h agoLow—
Skipton MorrisonsSkipton0.04 m 1h agoNormal—
Skipton Eller BeckSkipton Eller Beck0.11 m 1h 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.

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Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins Eller 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.

1 gauged tributary, 2 gauges

Waller Hill Beck

Joins Eller Beck between Skipton Morrisons and Skipton Eller Beck, no more than 2.2 km by river above Skipton Eller Beck.

Skibeden Beck0.17 m 1h agoNormal

Its water passes Skipton Eller Beck and every gauge below it on Eller Beck. It does not pass Skipton Morrisons or the gauges above it.

Gauged streams joining Waller Hill Beck

Where Eller Beck goes

Below Skipton Eller Beck, its water next reaches Snaygill, a gauge on River Aire, 1.1 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 Eller 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.

  • Haw Beck (joins about 1.9 km above Skipton Medical Centre)

Storm overflows upstream

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

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

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Skipton Eller Beck: 255 spills over 1,318 hours in total, across all 8.

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 Eller Beck includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Skipton Medical Centre, Eller Beck’s highest gauge3 overflows
  • Newlands No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Embsay Beck · 3.1 km by river above Skipton Medical Centre · 2025: 5 spills, 12 h
  • Embsay CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Embsay Beck · 3.1 km by river above Skipton Medical Centre · 2025: 49 spills, 109 h
  • Embsay WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trib Of Haw Beck · 2.2 km by river above Skipton Medical Centre · 2025: 74 spills, 808 h
Between Skipton Medical Centre and Skipton Morrisons2 overflows
  • Gargrave Road No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Eller Beck (Via Public Sewer) · 260 m by river above Skipton Morrisons · 2025: 8 spills, 14 h · reaches the river through a sewer, so where it enters is approximate
  • Brook Street CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Eller Beck · 260 m by river above Skipton Morrisons · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
Between Skipton Morrisons and Skipton Eller Beck2 overflows
  • Ellerbeck CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Waller Hill Beck · 1.4 km by river above Skipton Eller Beck · 2025: 65 spills, 165 h
  • Carleton Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Eller Beck · 640 m by river above Skipton Eller Beck · 2025: 49 spills, 190 h
Waller Hill Beck, above Skibeden Beckjoins Eller Beck above Skipton Eller Beck1 overflow
  • Regent Drive CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trib Of Skibeden Beck · 920 m by river above Skibeden Beck · 2025: 5 spills, 20 h

5 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Eller 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.

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 Eller Beck and the streams that join it above Skipton Eller Beck. 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 Skipton Waller Hill Reservoir Waller Hill Beck 1 point, 0 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Skibeden Beck at Skibeden QuarrySkibeden Beck0.4 kmLast sampled 9 Oct 2000, before the imported period
Above Skipton Medical Centre Eller Beck 5 points, 1 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Eller Beck at Hagg FarmEller Beck3.6 kmLast sampled 7 Dec 2022, before the imported period
Embsay Beck upstream of Haw Beck confluenceEmbsay Beck3.1 kmLast sampled 1 Jun 2018, before the imported period
Haw Beck at Embsay Beck confluenceHaw Beck3.0 km27 May 2026 · 4 months agoTemp 15.5 °CpH 8.43Ammonia 0.036 mg/lPhosphate 0.078 mg/l
Eller Beck at Tarn Moor BridgeEller Beck2.9 kmLast sampled 16 Mar 2020, before the imported period
Eller Beck By Leatt's MillEller Beck0.4 kmLast sampled 10 Mar 2017, before the imported period
Above Skipton Eller Beck Eller Beck 2 points, 0 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Waller Hill Beck/Skibeden Beck upstream of EllerWaller Hill Beck1.5 kmLast sampled 22 Jan 2007, before the imported period
Eller Beck upstream of Aire confluenceEller Beck0.1 kmLast sampled 16 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.