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Old River Tone water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Somerset, updated every 15 minutes.

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Bathpool OutfallBathpool7.94 mAOD 1h 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 the Old River Tone 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 the Old River Tone above Bathpool Outfall on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where the Old River Tone goes

Below Bathpool Outfall, its water next reaches Bathpool Outfall, a gauge on River Tone, 60 m 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 the Old River Tone 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.

Storm overflows upstream

1 storm overflow is traced upstream of Bathpool Outfall, the Old River Tone’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Old River Tone 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 Bathpool Outfall: 17 spills over 144 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 the Old River Tone includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Bathpool Outfall, the Old River Tone’s highest gauge1 overflow
  • Allens Brook CSO Not discharging
    Wessex Water · into Allen's Brook · 2.3 km by river above Bathpool Outfall · 2025: 17 spills, 144 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Bridgwater Road CSO Not discharging
    Wessex Water · into Tributary Of The River Tone · 670 m from Bathpool Outfall in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Maidenbrook Lane CSO Not discharging
    Wessex Water · into Trib Of Old River Tone · 1.9 km from Bathpool Outfall in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 8 spills, 30 h
  • Henlade Pumping Station Not discharging
    Wessex Water · into Tributary Of Black Brook · 2.5 km from Bathpool Outfall in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 14 spills, 177 h
  • Longacre Close Pumping Station Not discharging
    Wessex Water · into Kingston Stream(S) · 2.9 km from Bathpool Outfall in a straight line · its water cannot be followed on the map · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h

8 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Old River Tone’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: © Wessex 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.

2 sampling points on the Old River Tone and the streams that join it above Bathpool Outfall. 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 Bathpool Outfall Old River Tone 2 points, 1 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Downstream of Hestercombe Houseunnamed stream3.7 km16 Sep 2026 · 22 days agoOxygen 90.9% Jul 2026Temp 15.8 °C Jul 2026pH 7.85 Jul 2026Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l Jul 2026
Allens Brook off Hyde LaneOld River Tone0.1 kmLast sampled 3 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.