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Kenwith Stream water levels

Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across Devon, updated every 15 minutes.

2stations
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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Kenwith CastleKenwith0.27 m 27m agoLow—
Bideford Elliots Kingsley Roadtidal—0.07 mASD 27m 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 Kenwith Stream 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 Kenwith Stream above Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where Kenwith Stream goes

No gauge below Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road 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

1 storm overflow is traced upstream of Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road, Kenwith Stream’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Kenwith Stream itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 1 not discharging
  • 0 offline or silent: 0 monitor offline, 0 status unknown, 0 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflow traced upstream of Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road: 23 spills over 6.8 hours.

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 Kenwith Stream includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Between Kenwith Castle and Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road1 overflow
  • Westcombe Lane CSO Not discharging shellfish water
    South West Water · into Kenwith Stream(S) · 130 m by river above Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road · 2025: 23 spills, 6.8 h · placed on the river by its position alone

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Ethelwynne Brown Close PS Not discharging shellfish water
    South West Water · into River Torridge Estuary(E) · 320 m from Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 3 spills, 5.7 h
  • Bideford Fine Screening Not discharging shellfish water
    South West Water · into River Torridge (E) · 490 m from Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 31 spills, 59 h
  • Abbotsham WwTW Monitor offline
    South West Water · into Kenwith Stream · 690 m from Kenwith Castle in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 196 spills, 205 h
  • Torridge Mount CSO Not discharging
    South West Water · into River Torridge Via Sws · 730 m from Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Raleigh Hill CSO Not discharging shellfish water
    South West Water · into Kenwith Stream (S) · 850 m from Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 6 spills, 0.8 h
  • Torrington Street PS Not discharging shellfish water
    South West Water · into River Torridge Estuary (E) · 890 m from Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 8 spills, 11 h
  • Buckleigh Pumping Station Not discharging shellfish water
    South West Water · into Silford Stream · 1.1 km from Kenwith Castle in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 20 spills, 138 h
  • Lower Cleave Pscso/EO Not discharging shellfish water
    South West Water · into River Torridge (E) · 1.2 km from Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 1 spill, 1.3 h
  • Laurel Avenue CSO Not discharging shellfish water
    South West Water · into Kenwith Stream · 1.4 km from Kenwith Castle in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 11 spills, 7.0 h
  • Moreton Park Road CSO Not discharging shellfish water
    South West Water · into Tributary Of Kenwith (S) · 1.5 km from Kenwith Castle in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 2 spills, 0.1 h
  • Northam Waste Water Pumping Station Not discharging shellfish water
    South West Water · into Bideford Bay & The Pill · 2.3 km from Kenwith Castle in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 49 spills, 87 h
  • #n/A Not discharging
    South West Water · into Tributary Of The Pill Via Sws · 2.3 km from Kenwith Castle in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Westleigh Pumping Station Not discharging
    South West Water · into River Torridge Estuary(E) · 2.5 km from Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 18 spills, 186 h
  • Northam Waste Water Pumping Station Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    South West Water · into Bideford Bay & The Pill · 2.6 km from Kenwith Castle in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 10 spills, 19 h
  • Causeway Close CSO Not discharging shellfish water
    South West Water · into Tributary Of The Pill Via Sws · 2.9 km from Bideford Elliots Kingsley Road in a straight line · reaches the river through a sewer or culvert · 2025: 10 spills, 6.5 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: © South West 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.

No Environment Agency sampling point is placed on the Kenwith Stream or the streams above its lowest gauge on the mapped rivers. That is not the same as none: the river map leaves out many small streams.

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.