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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Westmorland and Furness, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffy Knotts | 0.99 m 1h ago | Normal |
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 Brathay 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 Brathay above Jeffy Knotts on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.
Below Jeffy Knotts, its water next reaches Newby Bridge, a gauge on River Leven, 20.9 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.
1 storm overflow is traced upstream of Jeffy Knotts, the Brathay’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Brathay itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflow traced upstream of Jeffy Knotts: 36 spills over 423 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 Brathay includes the smaller streams that join it there.
1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below the Brathay’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: © United Utilities 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.
11 sampling points on the River Brathay and the streams that join it above Jeffy Knotts, and below it. 5 have a sample from the last 12 months; 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widdy Gill above the confluence with River Brathay | Widdy Gill | 10 km | 5 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago | Oxygen 102.2%Temp 7 °CpH 6.71Ammonia 0.0027 mg/l |
| Great Langdale Beck By Middlefell Place | Great Langdale Beck | 9.8 km | Last sampled 24 Feb 2008, before the imported period | |
| Great Langdale Beck downstream of Campsite | Great Langdale Beck | 9.1 km | 19 Aug 2026 · 50 days ago | Oxygen 103.7%Temp 14.9 °CpH 8Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Brathay at Fell Foot | River Brathay | 8.2 km | Last sampled 24 Feb 2008, before the imported period | |
| Greenburn Beck above the confluence with River Brathay | Greenburn Beck | 8.0 km | 25 Mar 2024 · 2.5 years ago | pH 7.25 |
| Brathay at Colwith Road Bridge | River Brathay | 4.6 km | 20 Aug 2026 · 49 days ago | Oxygen 100.6%Temp 14.8 °CpH 8.02Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Brathay near Colwith | River Brathay | 4.6 km | Last sampled 7 Nov 2006, before the imported period | |
| Great Langdale Beck at Elterwater | Great Langdale Beck | 4.3 km | 19 Aug 2026 · 50 days ago | Oxygen 102.5%Temp 14.9 °CpH 8.08Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Brathay upstream of Langdale sewage treatment works Outfall | River Brathay | 2.8 km | Last sampled 16 Dec 2003, before the imported period | |
| Brathay downstream of Langdale sewage treatment works Outfall | River Brathay | 2.1 km | 3 Sep 2026 · 35 days ago | Oxygen 102%Temp 15.7 °CpH 6.91Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Brathay at Clappersgate | River Brathay | 0.6 km | 3 Sep 2026 · 35 days ago | Oxygen 100.3%Temp 15.5 °CpH 7.2Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
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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