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River Doe Lea water levels

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

1stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
StaveleyWoodthorpe0.14 m 1h 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.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Gauged tributaries

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

Where the Doe Lea goes

Below Staveley, its water next reaches Killamarsh, a gauge on River Rother, 8.7 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.

Streams without a gauge

Named streams on the river map that flow into the Doe Lea 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

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

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

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Staveley: 211 spills over 1,346 hours in total, across all 5.

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 Doe Lea includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Staveley, the Doe Lea’s highest gauge5 overflows
  • Stockley WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 7.9 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 45 spills, 449 h
  • Carr Vale No 2 SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 6.0 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 25 spills, 71 h
  • Bolsover WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 5.5 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 76 spills, 540 h
  • Bolsover WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 5.5 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 45 spills, 228 h
  • Shuttlewood CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Hawke Brook · 4.8 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 20 spills, 58 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Troughbrook Road No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trough Brook · 2.6 km from Staveley in a straight line · its water cannot be followed on the map · 2025: 35 spills, 141 h

4 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Doe Lea’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: © Yorkshire 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.

15 sampling points on the River Doe Lea and the streams that join it above Staveley, and below it. 3 have a sample from the last 12 months; 5 have any sample banked. Listed from the source down, grouped by the next gauge each one's water reaches.

Above Staveley River Doe Lea 13 points, 4 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Doe Lea at Hardwick InnRiver Doe Lea13 km18 Sep 2026 · 20 days agoOxygen 89.7%Temp 12.6 °CpH 8.16Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
Doe Lea downstream of Stainsby BrookRiver Doe Lea11 kmLast sampled 22 Nov 2000, before the imported period
Stockley Brook upstream Glapwell TipStockley Brook9.7 kmLast sampled 3 May 2018, before the imported period
Stockley Brook Downstreamglapwell TipStockley Brook8.5 kmLast sampled 5 May 2009, before the imported period
Doe Lea upstream of Stockley sewage treatment worksRiver Doe Lea8.0 kmLast sampled 14 May 2018, before the imported period
Doe Lea at Doe Lea Bridge upstream of BolsoverRiver Doe Lea6.7 km18 Sep 2026 · 20 days agoOxygen 82%Temp 13.4 °CpH 7.95Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
Doe Lea downstream of Bolsover sewage treatment worksRiver Doe Lea4.8 kmLast sampled 18 Aug 2009, before the imported period
Doe Lea upstream of Coalite Oils and ChemicalsRiver Doe Lea4.0 kmLast sampled 2 Mar 2016, before the imported period
Doe Lea at Buttermilk Lane BridgeRiver Doe Lea3.9 kmLast sampled 18 Apr 2017, before the imported period
Hawke Brook at ShuttlewoodHawke Brook3.4 kmLast sampled 10 Aug 2016, before the imported period
Doe Lea at Gauging Station downstream of Markham CollRiver Doe Lea2.7 kmLast sampled 6 Nov 2015, before the imported period
Hawke Brook at Doe Lea confluenceHawke Brook1.6 km7 Mar 2025 · 19 months agoOxygen 112%Temp 10.3 °CpH 8.63Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
Pools Brook at Doe Lea confluencePools Brook0.2 km21 Sep 2026 · 17 days agoOxygen 65.6%Temp 15.4 °CpH 7.91Ammonia 0.037 mg/l
Below Staveley 2 points, 1 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Below the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Doe Lea at A619 Staveley BridgeRiver Doe Lea0.5 kmLast sampled 30 Mar 2005, before the imported period
Doe Lea at RenishawRiver Doe Lea2.6 km23 Jan 2024 · 2.7 years agopH 7.71

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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