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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across West Midlands, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Walsall | 0.13 mASD 30m ago | Normal |
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 Ford Brook 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 Ford Brook above Walsall on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.
Below Walsall, its water next reaches Bescot, a gauge on River Tame, 1.4 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.
20 storm overflows are traced upstream of Walsall, Ford Brook’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Ford Brook itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Walsall: 153 spills over 218 hours in total, across all 20.
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 Ford Brook includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of Ford Brook’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
19 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Ford Brook’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: © Severn Trent 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.
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.
9 sampling points on the Ford Brook and the streams that join it above Walsall, and below it. 4 have a sample from the last 12 months; 4 have any sample banked. Listed from the source down, grouped by the next gauge each one's water reaches.
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ford Brook - downstream of Walsall Wood sewage treatment works | Ford Brook | 7.3 km | 7 Sep 2026 · 31 days ago | pH 7.18 |
| Vigo Brook - downstream of Polymeric Treatments | unnamed stream | 7.3 km | 7 Sep 2026 · 31 days ago | pH 7.08 |
| Rough Brook - Pelsall | unnamed stream | 7.3 km | Last sampled 5 Jan 2011, before the imported period | |
| Vigo Brook - downstream of Beddows | unnamed stream | 7.2 km | Last sampled 1 Oct 2004, before the imported period | |
| Rough Brook - downstream of Slackey Lane Tip | unnamed stream | 6.4 km | 10 Apr 2026 · 6 months ago | Oxygen 60.3%Temp 11 °CpH 7.26Ammonia 0.3 mg/l |
| Stubbers Green Brook - Rushall | unnamed stream | 5.9 km | Last sampled 4 Dec 2018, before the imported period | |
| Ford Brook - Station Road Rushall | Ford Brook | 5.2 km | Last sampled 9 Jan 2015, before the imported period | |
| Ford Brook - Walsall Cartridge Lane | Ford Brook | 4.2 km | Last sampled 3 Dec 2004, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ford Brook upstream of River Tame (Wolv) | Ford Brook | 0.3 km | 1 Oct 2026 · 7 days ago | Oxygen 78.6%Temp 16.5 °CpH 7.6Ammonia 0.25 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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