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Fenay Beck water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across West Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Fenay BridgeFenay Bridge0.09 m 46m 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.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins Fenay 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, 1 gauge

Where Fenay Beck goes

Below Fenay Bridge, its water next reaches ICI Colne, a gauge on River Colne, 3.8 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 Fenay 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

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

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 5 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 Fenay Bridge: 114 spills over 801 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 Fenay Beck includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Fenay Bridge, Fenay Beck’s highest gauge5 overflows
  • Damhill No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Shepley Dike · 6.0 km by river above Fenay Bridge · 2025: 9 spills, 34 h
  • Thunderbridge No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Shepley Dike · 5.6 km by river above Fenay Bridge · 2025: 8 spills, 26 h
  • Springfield Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of Dean Bottom Dike · 3.8 km by river above Fenay Bridge · 2025: 67 spills, 595 h
  • Dogley CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Woodsome Beck · 2.6 km by river above Fenay Bridge · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Fenay Bridge Tank CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Fenay Beck · 130 m by river above Fenay Bridge · 2025: 30 spills, 146 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Fenay Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Fenay Beck · 70 m from Fenay Bridge in a straight line · too close to Fenay Bridge to say which side · 2025: 31 spills, 107 h
  • Lake Side Lane SSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Oxfield Beck · 1.7 km from Fenay Bridge in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 9 spills, 65 h
  • Aspley Wakefield Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Penny Dike · 2.9 km from Fenay Bridge in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 13 spills, 12 h
  • Springfield Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of Range Dike · 2.9 km from Fenay Bridge in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 7 spills, 82 h

7 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Fenay 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.

5 sampling points on the Fenay Beck and the streams that join it above Fenay Bridge, and below it. 1 has a sample from the last 12 months; 2 have any sample banked. Listed from the source down, grouped by the next gauge each one's water reaches.

Above Fenay Bridge Fenay Beck 4 points, 1 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Cliffe House Beck - Shepleyunnamed stream9.0 km4 Aug 2026 · 2 months agoOxygen 84.9% Jul 2026Temp 14.5 °C Jul 2026pH 7.57 Jul 2026Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l Jul 2026
Shepley Dike at near BankShepley Dike8.1 kmLast sampled 14 Mar 2011, before the imported period
Fenay Beck at ThunderbridgeThunder Bridge Dike5.0 kmLast sampled 13 Dec 2022, before the imported period
Dean Bottom Dike at Three Owl HotelDean Bottom Dike3.5 kmLast sampled 4 Sep 2000, before the imported period
Below Fenay Bridge 1 point
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Below the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Fenay Beck at WaterlooFenay Beck1.2 km25 Sep 2025 · 12 months ago

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.