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Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across Dumfries and Galloway, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langholm Bridge | 0.64 m 20m ago | Normal | ||
| 13.0 km by river | ||||
| Canonbie | 0.45 m 20m ago | Normal | ||
Also on the Esk (Solway) by the river map, but filed under another river name: Canonbie.
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.
Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Esk (Solway) 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.
Joins the Esk (Solway) above Langholm Bridge, its highest gauge, no more than 11.6 km by river above Langholm Bridge.
| Unthank Bridge | 0.31 m 20m ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on the Esk (Solway), from Langholm Bridge down.
Joins the Esk (Solway) above Langholm Bridge, its highest gauge, no more than 23.3 km by river above Langholm Bridge.
| Castle O'er | 0.50 m 20m ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on the Esk (Solway), from Langholm Bridge down.
No gauge below Canonbie 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.
4 storm overflows are traced upstream of Canonbie, the Esk (Solway)’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Esk (Solway) itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Canonbie: 798 overflow events over 3,567 hours in total, across the 3 that have a figure. 1 had no data that year. Scottish Water counts overflow events, not the 12/24-hour spills counted in England and Wales, so this total cannot be set beside theirs.
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 Esk (Solway) includes the smaller streams that join it there.
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: © Scottish Water, near-real-time Overflow Map data, open licence for reuse. EDM monitors indicate overflows; they do not confirm them, and this is not advice on water quality. Annual figures for Scotland: Scottish Water overflow event data, Open Government Licence.
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 Esk (Solway) and the streams that join it above Canonbie, and below it. 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.
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Esk at Burnfoot | River Esk | 12 km | 28 Aug 2026 · 41 days ago | Oxygen 76.6%Temp 17.4 °CpH 7.98Ammonia 0.073 mg/l |
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.
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