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Live levels from 3 monitoring stations across Lincolnshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goulceby | 0.03 mASD 27m ago | Normal | ||
| 12.1 km by river | ||||
| Horncastle Victoria Mill | 0.08 mASD 42m ago | Normal | ||
| 8.7 km by river | ||||
| Kirkby On Bain | 0.03 mASD 27m ago | Normal | ||
Also on the Bain by the river map, but filed under another river name: GOULCEBY GS WITS and VICTORIA MILL HORNCASTLE 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.
Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Bain above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.
Joins the Bain between Horncastle Victoria Mill and Kirkby On Bain, no more than 8.9 km by river above Kirkby On Bain.
| Horncastle Banks Road | 0.02 mASD 2h ago | Low |
| 170 m by river | ||
| HORNCASTLE BANKS ROAD GS | 0.03 m3/s 2h ago | — |
Its water passes Kirkby On Bain and every gauge below it on the Bain. It does not pass Horncastle Victoria Mill or the gauges above it.
No gauge below Kirkby On Bain 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.
4 storm overflows are traced upstream of Kirkby On Bain, the Bain’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Bain itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Kirkby On Bain: 78 spills over 836 hours in total, across all 4.
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 Bain includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Bain’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
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: © Anglian 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.
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.
13 sampling points on the River Bain and the streams that join it above Kirkby On Bain. 6 have a sample from the last 12 months; 9 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Bain A157 Road Bridge Burgh on Bain | River Bain | 11 km | 7 Sep 2026 · 31 days ago | Oxygen 72.6%Temp 15.1 °CpH 7.71Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Bain A157 Road Bridge Grimblethorpe | unnamed stream | 11 km | 11 Sep 2026 · 27 days ago | Oxygen 72.4%Temp 13.9 °CpH 7.83Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Bain upstream of Donington on Bain sewage treatment works | River Bain | 7.0 km | Last sampled 2 Dec 2021, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bain at upstream of Bain House | River Bain | 0.1 km | 6 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago | Oxygen 90.7%Temp 6.7 °CpH 7.91Ammonia 0.013 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Waring Low Toynton Bridge | River Waring | 1.4 km | 7 Sep 2026 · 31 days ago | Oxygen 99.7%Temp 17.1 °CpH 8.46Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goulceby Beck - GB105030062260 | unnamed stream | 12 km | 7 Sep 2026 · 31 days ago | Oxygen 94.8%Temp 15 °CpH 8.03Ammonia 0.033 mg/l |
| Bain Middle at Hemingby South | River Bain | 5.3 km | 7 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago | Oxygen 102.9%Temp 5.8 °CpH 8.12Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Bain Sharmans Wath | River Bain | 2.6 km | Last sampled 6 May 2014, before the imported period | |
| River Bain Victoria Mill | River Bain | 0.2 km | 20 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 94.2%Temp 12.8 °CpH 8.05Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrivelsby Beck - GB105030062190 | Scrivelsby Beck | 7.6 km | 11 Sep 2026 · 27 days ago | Oxygen 103% Jun 2026Temp 16.6 °C Jun 2026pH 8.13 Jun 2026Ammonia 0.089 mg/l Jun 2026 |
| River Bain Thornton Bridge | River Bain | 6.7 km | 4 Mar 2024 · 2.6 years ago | Oxygen 98.6%Temp 4.9 °CpH 8.2Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Bain downstream of Horncastle sewage treatment works O/F | River Bain | 5.5 km | Last sampled 24 Jul 2006, before the imported period | |
| River Bain Dalderby downstream of Horncastle sewage treatment works | River Bain | 4.1 km | Last sampled 17 Feb 2020, 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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