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Eridge Stream Tributary Medway water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across East Sussex, updated every 15 minutes.

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0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Hendal BridgeGroombridge0.14 mASD 36m 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 the Eridge Stream Tributary Medway 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.

No gauged tributary joins the Eridge Stream Tributary Medway above Hendal Bridge on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where the Eridge Stream Tributary Medway goes

Below Hendal Bridge, its water next reaches Chafford, a gauge on River Medway, 7.4 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

6 storm overflows are traced upstream of Hendal Bridge, the Eridge Stream Tributary Medway’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Eridge Stream Tributary Medway itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 6 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 Hendal Bridge: 91 spills over 670 hours in total, across all 6.

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 Eridge Stream Tributary Medway includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Hendal Bridge, the Eridge Stream Tributary Medway’s highest gauge6 overflows
  • CSO Pellings Wood Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Freshwater River · 15.0 km by river above Hendal Bridge · 2025: 29 spills, 100 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Alderbrook Way CSO Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Jarvis Brook · 14.5 km by river above Hendal Bridge · 2025: 3 spills, 2.9 h
  • Alderbrook Way CSO Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Jarvis Brook · 14.5 km by river above Hendal Bridge · 2025: 3 spills, 1.5 h
  • Jarvis Brook CSO Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Jarvis Brook · 12.6 km by river above Hendal Bridge · 2025: 12 spills, 74 h
  • Redgate Mill Crowborough WwTW Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Eridge Stream · 8.2 km by river above Hendal Bridge · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Redgate Mill Crowborough WwTW Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Eridge Stream · 8.2 km by river above Hendal Bridge · 2025: 44 spills, 491 h

3 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Eridge Stream Tributary Medway’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: © Southern 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.

5 sampling points on the Eridge Stream Tributary Medway and the streams that join it above Hendal Bridge, and below it. 3 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 Hendal Bridge Eridge Stream Tributary Medway 4 points, 3 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Redgate Mill FarmEridge Stream8.2 km20 May 2026 · 5 months agoOxygen 97.2%Temp 12.5 °CpH 7.35Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
Eridge Stream Eridge StationEridge Stream4.6 km28 Sep 2026 · 10 days agoOxygen 84.2%Temp 14.8 °CpH 7.41Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
Upstream of Groombridge sewage treatment works (closed)Eridge Stream1.2 kmLast sampled 12 Dec 2006, before the imported period
Eridge Stream at Gauging StationEridge Stream0.1 km7 May 2026 · 5 months agoOxygen 85.8%Temp 12.5 °CpH 7.72Ammonia 0.044 mg/l
Below Hendal Bridge 1 point, 0 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Below the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Ham BridgeEridge Stream1.1 kmLast sampled 1 Mar 2022, 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.