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Fleet Drain water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across East Riding of Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.

1stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
HessletidalstructureHessle0.90 mASD 27m 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.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins Fleet Drain 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.

1 gauged tributary, 2 gauges

Where Fleet Drain goes

No gauge below Hessle 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.

Storm overflows upstream

2 storm overflows are traced upstream of Hessle, Fleet Drain’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Fleet Drain itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 2 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 Hessle: 51 spills over 101 hours in total, across all 2.

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 Fleet Drain includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Hessle, Fleet Drain’s highest gauge2 overflows
  • Hull Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Sand Dike · 3.5 km by river above Hessle · 2025: 11 spills, 12 h
  • Ferry Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Fleet Drain · 130 m by river above Hessle · 2025: 40 spills, 89 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Barton-Upon-Humber Wrc Monitor offline
    Anglian Water · into R Humber · 2.3 km from Hessle in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 46 spills, 559 h
  • Ferriby High Road SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Humber · 3.0 km from Hessle in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · 2025: 9 spills, 68 h

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. Live status: © Anglian 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.

1 sampling point on the Fleet Drain and the streams that join it above Hessle. 0 have a sample from the last 12 months; 0 have any sample banked. Listed from the source down, grouped by the next gauge each one's water reaches.

Above Hessle Fleet Drain 1 point, 0 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Fleet Drain at Itlings Lane BridgeFleet Drain0.5 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.