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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Lancashire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Rawtenstall | 0.10 m 31m 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 Limey 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 Limey Water above Rawtenstall, its highest gauge, no more than 2.8 km by river above Rawtenstall.
| Folly Clough Brookstructure | 0.24 m 31m ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on Limey Water, from Rawtenstall down.
Below Rawtenstall, its water next reaches Irwell Vale, a gauge on River Irwell, 4.5 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.
3 storm overflows are traced upstream of Rawtenstall, Limey Water’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Limey Water itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Rawtenstall: 39 spills over 102 hours in total, across all 3.
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 Limey Water includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of Limey Water’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
13 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Limey Water’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: © United Utilities 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.
14 sampling points on the Limey Water and the streams that join it above Rawtenstall, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limy Water at Clow Bridge | Limy Water | 6.7 km | Last sampled 4 Dec 2014, before the imported period | |
| Love Clough at Culvert | unnamed stream | 5.5 km | Last sampled 2 Oct 2019, before the imported period | |
| Limy Water upstream of Whin Hill Clough | Limy Water | 5.2 km | Last sampled 2 Oct 2019, before the imported period | |
| Whin Hill Clough above the confluence with Limy Water | Limy Water | 5.2 km | Last sampled 2 Oct 2019, before the imported period | |
| Limy Water Outfall 4 | Limy Water | 5.0 km | Last sampled 2 Oct 2019, before the imported period | |
| Limy Water Outfall 3 | Limy Water | 5.0 km | Last sampled 2 Oct 2019, before the imported period | |
| Un-Named tributary of Limy Water | Limy Water | 4.9 km | Last sampled 2 Oct 2019, before the imported period | |
| Limy Water Outfall 2 at Commercial Bridge | Limy Water | 4.8 km | Last sampled 2 Oct 2019, before the imported period | |
| Limy Water upstream of Tootal (Loveclough) Ltd | Limy Water | 4.8 km | Last sampled 21 Jul 2004, before the imported period | |
| Limy Water Outfall 1 | Limy Water | 4.7 km | Last sampled 2 Oct 2019, before the imported period | |
| Limy Water upstream of Penny Lodge Lane | Limy Water | 4.7 km | Last sampled 2 Oct 2019, before the imported period | |
| Limy Water upstream of Cribden Clough | Limy Water | 0.6 km | Last sampled 18 Oct 2017, before the imported period | |
| Limy Water downstream of Cribden Clough | Limy Water | 0.6 km | Last sampled 18 Oct 2017, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limy Water above confluence with Irwell | Limy Water | 0.7 km | Last sampled 14 Mar 2023, 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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