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Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across Cumberland, Scottish Borders, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastletonsensor suspect | 0.22 m 13m ago | — | ||
| 18.8 km by river | ||||
| Rowanburnfoot | 0.53 m 13m 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 Liddel Water 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.
Joins Liddel Water above Newcastleton, its highest gauge, no more than 13.5 km by river above Newcastleton.
| Braidlie | 0.13 m 28m ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on Liddel Water, from Newcastleton down.
No gauge below Rowanburnfoot 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.
2 storm overflows are traced upstream of Rowanburnfoot, Liddel Water’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Liddel Water itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Rowanburnfoot: 476 overflow events over 820 hours in total, across all 2. Scottish Water counts overflow events, not the 12/24-hour spills counted in England and Wales, so this total cannot be set beside theirs.
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 Liddel Water includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of Liddel Water’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
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: © Scottish Water, near-real-time Overflow Map data, open licence for reuse. EDM monitors indicate overflows; they do not confirm them, and this is not advice on water quality. Annual figures for Scotland: Scottish Water overflow event data, Open Government Licence.
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.
3 sampling points on the Liddel Water and the streams that join it above Rowanburnfoot, and below it. 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.
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kershope Burn at NY483828 | Kershope Burn | 14 km | Last sampled 7 Apr 2008, before the imported period | |
| Liddel Water at B6318 Road Bridge | Loup Pool | 3.3 km | Last sampled 3 Dec 2013, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liddel Water upstream of confluence River Esk | Liddel Water | 3.8 km | Last sampled 3 Dec 2013, 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.
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