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River Alver water levels

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

1stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
BrowndownGosport0.90 mASD 43m 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.

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Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Alver 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 the Alver above Browndown on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where the Alver goes

No gauge below Browndown 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.

Storm overflows upstream

1 storm overflow is traced upstream of Browndown, the Alver’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Alver 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 Browndown: 3 spills over 17 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 Alver includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Browndown, the Alver’s highest gauge1 overflow
  • Newgate Lane Wps CEO Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into Ditch To The River Alver · 3.9 km by river above Browndown · 2025: 3 spills, 17 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Queens Road Lee-On-The-Solent CEO Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into The Solent · 1.8 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 3 spills, 3.2 h
  • Peel Common WwTW Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into The Solent · 1.8 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 37 spills, 283 h
  • Lakeside Lee-On-Solent CEO Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into The Solent · 1.9 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 1 spill, 0.9 h
  • Village Road Alverstoke CEO Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into Stoke Lake · 1.9 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to a loch, lake or reservoir · 2025: 2 spills, 1.2 h
  • Bury Road Gosport CEO Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into Workhouse Lake · 2.2 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to a loch, lake or reservoir · 2025: 4 spills, 6.9 h
  • Foster Road Gosport Wps CEO Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into Workhouse Lake, Portsmouth Hbr · 2.2 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to a loch, lake or reservoir · 2025: 6 spills, 11 h
  • Alver Road Gosport CEO Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into Workhouse Lake · 2.4 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to a loch, lake or reservoir · 2025: 1 spill, 1.0 h
  • Middlecroft Lane Gosport CSO Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into Portsmouth Harbour · 2.7 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Cambridge Road/Brockhurst Road PS Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into Portsmouth Harbour · 2.7 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 3 spills, 1.8 h
  • Lees Lane Gosport CEO Status unknown bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into Portsmouth Harbour · 2.7 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Green Crescent O/Flow No live feed bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into Saline Estuary · 2.7 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 2 spills, 19 h
  • Grove Road Gosport CEO Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into Portsmouth Harbour · 2.8 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 8 spills, 34 h
  • The Anchorage Gosport CEO Not discharging bathing water shellfish water
    Southern Water · into Portsmouth Harbour · 3.0 km from Browndown in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h

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: © Southern 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 River Alver 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.