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River Arun water levels

Live levels from 8 monitoring stations across West Sussex, updated every 15 minutes.

8stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Provender MillHorsham35.14 mAOD 1h agoNormal—
TanbridgeTanbridge32.28 mAOD 1h agoNormal—
AlfoldeanHorsham0.12 mASD 1h agoNormal—
New BridgeNewpound Common6.56 mAOD 1h agoLow—
Pulborough Swan BridgePulborough0.89 mASD 1h agoNormal△
Houghton BridgetidalHoughton1.31 mAOD 1h agoLow▼
LittlehamptontidalLittlehampton0.01 mAOD 1h ago—▼

On other watercourses

These gauges are filed under the Arun, but the river map places them on another watercourse, so they are not in the Arun’s order above.

Ferring Outfallon Ferring RifeFerring-3.43 mASD 1h agoLow—
Not connected to the Arun on the river map.

Also on the Arun by the river map, but filed under another river name: PALLINGHAM GS and PALLINGHAM GS.

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 Arun above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.

2 gauged tributaries, 9 gauges

River Lox

Joins the Arun between Alfoldean and New Bridge, no more than 8.3 km by river above New Bridge.

Drungewick0.04 mASD 1h agoLow

Its water passes New Bridge and every gauge below it on the Arun. It does not pass Alfoldean or the gauges above it.

River Rother

Joins the Arun between New Bridge and Pulborough Swan Bridge, no more than 1.3 km by river above Pulborough Swan Bridge.

Princes Marsh0.07 mASD 1h agoLow
Iping Mill0.29 mASD 1h agoNormal
Lodsbridge0.51 mASD 1h agoNormal
Hardham0.27 mASD 1h agoNormal
Hardham GS2.06 m3/s 1h ago—

Its water passes Pulborough Swan Bridge and every gauge below it on the Arun. It does not pass New Bridge or the gauges above it.

Gauged streams joining the Rother

Where the Arun goes

No gauge below Littlehampton 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.

Streams without a gauge

Named streams on the river map that flow into the Arun 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

26 storm overflows are traced upstream of Littlehampton, the Arun’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Arun itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

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

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Littlehampton: 700 spills over 7,011 hours in total, across all 26.

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 Arun includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Provender Mill, the Arun’s highest gauge2 overflows
  • Mannings Heath WwTW Not discharging
    Southern Water · into River Arun · 4.3 km by river above Provender Mill · 2025: 76 spills, 1,252 h
  • Kerves Lane Horsham Wps Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Horn Brook · 2.4 km by river above Provender Mill · 2025: 7 spills, 49 h
Between Tanbridge and Alfoldean2 overflows
  • Warnham Wwps Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Boldings Brook, Trib Of R.arun · 13.8 km by river above Alfoldean · 2025: 29 spills, 276 h
  • Horsham WwTW Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Tributary Of The River Arun · 7.3 km by river above Alfoldean · 2025: 27 spills, 268 h
Between Alfoldean and New Bridge2 overflows
  • Slinfold WwTW Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Unnamed Trib Of River Arun · 16.9 km by river above New Bridge · 2025: 40 spills, 392 h
  • Rudgwick Recreation Ground CSO Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Tributary Of River Arun · 12.0 km by river above New Bridge · 2025: 13 spills, 88 h
River Lox, above Drungewickjoins the Arun above New Bridge2 overflows
  • Turners Mead P.s. Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Freshwater River · 21.6 km by river above Drungewick · 2025: 13 spills, 84 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Onslow Arms Pumping Station Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Loxwood Stream · 3.2 km by river above Drungewick · 2025: 30 spills, 321 h
River Rother, above Princes Marshjoins the Arun above Pulborough Swan Bridge1 overflow
  • Station Road Liss CSO Not discharging
    Southern Water · into River Rother · 1.1 km by river above Princes Marsh · 2025: 2 spills, 11 h
River Rother, above Iping Milljoins the Arun above Pulborough Swan Bridge4 overflows
  • Liss Wastewater Treatment Works Not discharging
    Southern Water · into River Rother & Batt's Brook · 17.9 km by river above Iping Mill · 2025: 25 spills, 271 h
  • Buriton WwTW Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Trib Of Stanbridge Stream · 16.4 km by river above Iping Mill · 2025: 4 spills, 31 h
  • College Street Petersfield CSO Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Unnamed Strm To Tilmore Brook · 14.7 km by river above Iping Mill · 2025: 4 spills, 8.5 h
  • Rogate WwTW Not discharging
    Southern Water · into River Rother · 6.2 km by river above Iping Mill · 2025: 25 spills, 194 h
River Rother, above Lodsbridgejoins the Arun above Pulborough Swan Bridge2 overflows
  • Iping Nort CSO Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Freshwater River · 15.7 km by river above Lodsbridge · 2025: 9 spills, 60 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • South Ambersham WwTW Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Tributary Of The River Rother · 3.4 km by river above Lodsbridge · 2025: 28 spills, 316 h
River Rother, above Hardhamjoins the Arun above Pulborough Swan Bridge3 overflows
  • Barnetts Bridge Graffham CEO Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Tributary Of River Rother · 14.6 km by river above Hardham · 2025: 64 spills, 989 h
  • Petworth Wastewater Treatment Works Not discharging
    Southern Water · into River Rother · 7.7 km by river above Hardham · 2025: 36 spills, 91 h
  • Fittleworth S.t.w. Not discharging
    Southern Water · into River Rother · 3.1 km by river above Hardham · 2025: 92 spills, 599 h
River Lod, above Halfway Bridgejoins the Rother1 overflow
  • Fernhurst WwTW Not discharging
    Southern Water · into River Lod · 12.7 km by river above Halfway Bridge · 2025: 34 spills, 323 h
Between Pulborough Swan Bridge and Houghton Bridge1 overflow
  • Storrington WwTW, Storrington Not discharging
    Southern Water · into The River Stor · 15.6 km by river above Houghton Bridge · 2025: 16 spills, 125 h
Between Houghton Bridge and Littlehampton1 overflow
  • Hobbs Cottage CSO, Climping Street Not discharging bathing water
    Southern Water · into Ryebank Rife Via Surface Sewer · 3.4 km by river above Littlehampton · 2025: 1 spill, 0.5 h · reaches the river through a sewer, so where it enters is approximate
Above PALLINGHAM GS5 overflows
  • Northchapel WwTW No live feed
    Southern Water · into River Kird · 22.8 km by river above PALLINGHAM GS · 2025: 40 spills, 471 h
  • Bridgefoot Pumping Station Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Freshwater River · 12.3 km by river above PALLINGHAM GS · 2025: 1 spill, 6.9 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Land Adj. Billingshurst Pump. Stn Not discharging
    Southern Water · into Par Brook · 6.3 km by river above PALLINGHAM GS · 2025: 15 spills, 105 h
  • Billingshurst WwTW No live feed
    Southern Water · into Par Brook · 6.1 km by river above PALLINGHAM GS · 2025: 44 spills, 421 h
  • Wisborough Green WwTW Not discharging
    Southern Water · into River Kird · 5.1 km by river above PALLINGHAM GS · 2025: 25 spills, 259 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • CSO East St/Avon Rd Littlehampton Not discharging bathing water
    Southern Water · into Tidal River Arun · 300 m from Littlehampton in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 39 spills, 118 h
  • South Terrace Littlehampton CSO Not discharging bathing water
    Southern Water · into Tidal River Arun · 680 m from Littlehampton in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 32 spills, 202 h
  • Water Lane/Arundel Road No live feed bathing water
    Southern Water · into Freshwater River · 890 m from Littlehampton in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Bury WwTW Not discharging
    Southern Water · into River Arun · 1.2 km from Houghton Bridge in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · 2025: 17 spills, 184 h
  • Pulborough S.t.w. Not discharging
    Southern Water · into River Stor · 1.7 km from Pulborough Swan Bridge in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · 2025: 40 spills, 559 h
  • Broadmark Pumping Station Not discharging bathing water
    Southern Water · into Controlled Sea · 2.6 km from Littlehampton 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.

60 sampling points on the River Arun and the streams that join it above Littlehampton. 32 have a sample from the last 12 months; 39 have any sample banked.

Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Arun and its streams:

  • Pond Head Lane, North Riverunnamed stream · 20 km above AlfoldeanLast sampled 11 Sep 2026 · 27 days agoOxygen 75%Temp 15.2 °CpH 7.78Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
  • Waterland Farm Track, North Riverunnamed stream · 20 km above AlfoldeanLast sampled 11 Sep 2026 · 27 days agoOxygen 87%Temp 15.3 °CpH 7.95Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
  • River Rother Durford BridgeRiver Rother · 10 km above Iping MillLast sampled 9 Sep 2026 · 29 days agoOxygen 93.6%Temp 14.9 °CpH 7.41Ammonia 0.055 mg/l
Where, from the source downSampling pointsNewest sample
River Rother and its streamsjoins the Arun above Pulborough Swan Bridge26 points19 sampled9 Sep 2026
Above Provender Mill9 points1 sampled28 May 2026
Above Alfoldean10 points8 sampled11 Sep 2026
Above DrungewickRiver Lox · joins the Arun above New Bridge3 points11 Aug 2026
Above New Bridge2 points22 May 2026
Above PALLINGHAM GS5 points2 sampled18 May 2026
Above Pulborough Swan Bridge1 point7 Aug 2026
Above Houghton Bridge3 points2 sampled10 Aug 2026
Above Littlehampton1 point14 May 2026

England's samples only. Each count opens the list of those points, nearest first, with the date of each one’s latest sample (the gauge’s “Upstream of here” list).

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.