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Pymmes Brook water levels

Live levels from 4 monitoring stations across Greater London, updated every 15 minutes.

4stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
New BarnetCockfosters0.13 mASD 28m agoNormal—
Arnos ParkstructureSouthgate2.59 mASD 22d agoold reading
Powys Lane—0.64 mASD 28m agoLow—
Edmonton, Silver StreetEdmonton0.05 mASD 28m agoNormal—

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 Pymmes Brook 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 Pymmes Brook above Edmonton, Silver Street on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where Pymmes Brook goes

Below Edmonton, Silver Street, its water next reaches Lea Bridge, a gauge on River Lee, 7.1 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.

Storm overflows upstream

2 storm overflows are traced upstream of Edmonton, Silver Street, Pymmes Brook’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Pymmes Brook itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

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

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Edmonton, Silver Street: 2 spills over 1.3 hours in total, across all 2.

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 Pymmes Brook includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Between New Barnet and Arnos Park1 overflow
  • N/A Not discharging
    Thames Water · into N/A · 3.0 km by river above Arnos Park · 2025: 2 spills, 1.3 h · placed on the river by its position alone
Between Arnos Park and Powys Lane1 overflow
  • Pinkham Way CSO Not discharging
    Thames Water · into Bounds Green Brook · 1.8 km by river above Powys Lane · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Deadmans Bridge CSO Monitor offline
    Thames Water · into Pymmes Brook · 830 m from Powys Lane in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 21 spills, 38 h
  • Lytton Road SSO Not discharging
    Thames Water · into Pymmes Brook · 830 m from New Barnet in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 4 spills, 15 h
  • Church Hill Road Not discharging
    Thames Water · into Trib Of Pymmes Brook · 1000 m from New Barnet in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 1 spill, 0.8 h
  • N/A Status unknown
    Thames Water · into N/A · 1.0 km from New Barnet in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Deephams Wastewater Treatment Works Not discharging
    Thames Water · into Salmon Brook · 1.7 km from Edmonton, Silver Street in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 6 spills, 55 h

2 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Pymmes Brook’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: © Thames 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 Pymmes Brook 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.