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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across County Durham, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Wearhead | 0.15 m 44m 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 Killhope Burn above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.
No gauged tributary joins Killhope Burn above Wearhead on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.
Below Wearhead, its water next reaches Stanhope, a gauge on River Wear, 14.3 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.
None of the storm overflows FloodRadar holds is traced upstream of Wearhead 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.
1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below Killhope Burn’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 →
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.
6 sampling points on the Killhope Burn and the streams that join it above Wearhead. 1 has a sample from the last 12 months; 3 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Killhope Burn at Killhope Museum Ford (C) | Killhope Burn | 5.2 km | 26 Feb 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 96%Temp 4.1 °CpH 7.4Conductivity 109 µS/cm |
| Killhope Burn at Snodbury Bridge (E) | Killhope Burn | 4.6 km | Last sampled 15 Feb 2013, before the imported period | |
| Killhope Burn at Heatherycleugh | North Grain | 2.1 km | Last sampled 15 Dec 2022, before the imported period | |
| Sedling Burn upstream of Burtree Pasture No. 2 Minewater | Sedling Burn | 1.7 km | 18 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago | pH 6.48 |
| Sedling Burn downstream of Burtree Pasture No. 2 Minewater | Sedling Burn | 1.3 km | Last sampled 24 Oct 2013, before the imported period | |
| Killhope Burn at Cowshill | North Grain | 0.8 km | 20 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 103%Temp 10 °CpH 8.52Ammonia below 0.03 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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