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Haweswater Beck water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Westmorland and Furness, updated every 15 minutes.

1stations

0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

Station	Town	Level now	Status	Trend
Burnbanks	Bampton	0.09 m 13h ago	old reading

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 Haweswater 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

Gill Dubs name from the river map

Joins Haweswater Beck above Burnbanks, its highest gauge, no more than 820 m by river above Burnbanks.

Haweswater Reservoir (Spillway level = 31.39m)structure

16.61 m 32m ago

Low

Its water passes every gauge on Haweswater Beck, from Burnbanks down.

Where Haweswater Beck goes

Below Burnbanks, its water next reaches Eamont Bridge, a gauge on River Lowther, 15.5 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 Haweswater 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.

Howes Beck (joins about 12 km above Eamont Bridge)
Naddle Beck (joins about 10 m above Burnbanks)

Storm overflows upstream

None of the storm overflows FloodRadar holds is traced upstream of Burnbanks on the river map. That is not the same as none: the map leaves out many small streams and culverts, so an overflow it cannot place may still drain here, and not every company publishes every overflow.

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 →

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 Haweswater Beck and the streams that join it above Burnbanks, 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.

Above Burnbanks Haweswater Beck 3 points, 0 with samples

Sampling point	Watercourse (map)	Above the gauge	Last sample
Haweswater Beck upstream of Lakeland Smolts	Gill Dubs	0.8 km	Last sampled 10 Oct 2003, before the imported period
Haweswater Beck downstream	Gill Dubs	0.7 km	Last sampled 10 Oct 2003, before the imported period
Haweswater Beck upstream of Burnbanks & Weir	Gill Dubs	0.4 km	Last sampled 27 Oct 2014, before the imported period

Below Burnbanks 2 points, 1 with samples

Sampling point	Watercourse (map)	Below the gauge	Last sample	Latest results (river water)
Haweswater Beck at Bomby Bridge	Haweswater Beck	2.6 km	15 Sep 2026 · 23 days ago	Oxygen 111.7% Apr 2026Temp 15.5 °CpH 7.21 Apr 2026Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
Unamed tributary of Haweswater Beck at Walmgate FT	Haweswater Beck	2.7 km	Last sampled 27 Oct 2014, 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.

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