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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Dorset, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Burton Bradstock | 0.24 m 27m 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 Bride 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 Bride above Burton Bradstock on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.
No gauge below Burton Bradstock 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 Burton Bradstock, the Bride’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Bride itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Burton Bradstock: 163 spills over 2,604 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 Bride includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Bride’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below the Bride’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: © Wessex Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Live status: © South West 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.
8 sampling points on the River Bride and the streams that join it above Burton Bradstock, and below it. 3 have a sample from the last 12 months; 3 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 Bride at Long Bredy | River Bride | 10 km | Last sampled 12 Jan 2004, before the imported period | |
| River Bride at Rowden Bridge | River Bride | 8.7 km | Last sampled 28 Nov 2012, before the imported period | |
| Litton Cheney Stream | unnamed stream | 7.8 km | 7 Sep 2026 · 31 days ago | Oxygen 102.4%Temp 12.9 °CpH 8.66Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Bride at Chicks Bridge | River Bride | 6.8 km | 1 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 99%Temp 12.4 °CpH 8.39Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Bride downstream of Modbury Fish Farm | River Bride | 4.2 km | Last sampled 9 Dec 2004, before the imported period | |
| River Bride at Modbury | River Bride | 2.6 km | Last sampled 17 Jan 2014, before the imported period | |
| River Bride Millstream Burton Bradstock | River Bride | 0.3 km | Last sampled 5 Dec 2022, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Bride at Burton Bradstock | River Bride | 0.1 km | 6 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 101.6%Temp 12.3 °CpH 8.44Ammonia 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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