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Live levels from 8 monitoring stations across Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirkby Stephen | 0.41 m 31m ago | Normal | ||
| 6.1 km by river | ||||
| Great Musgrave Bridge | 0.38 m 31m ago | Normal | ||
| 14.7 km by river | ||||
| Appleby | 0.35 m 31m ago | Normal | ||
| 16.8 km by river | ||||
| Temple Sowerby | 0.61 m 31m ago | Normal | ||
| 40.7 km by river | ||||
| Great Corby | 0.86 m 31m ago | Normal | ||
| 11.3 km by river | ||||
| Linstock | 0.60 m 31m ago | Normal | ||
| 5.5 km by river | ||||
| Sands Centre, Carlisle | 0.52 m 19d ago | old reading | ||
| 1.7 km by river | ||||
| Sheepmount | 1.03 m 31m 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 Eden above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.
Each tributary’s water passes the gauge it joins above and every gauge below it on the Eden, and none of the gauges above where it joins. For each, the gauge nearest the Eden is shown; its own page lists the rest.
Joins the Eden between Temple Sowerby and Great Corby, no more than 37.9 km by river above Great Corby. Nearest the Eden: Udford New Normal; 13 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Ullswater, Dacre Beck, River Lowther and Thacka Beck.
Joins the Eden between Great Corby and Linstock, no more than 10.3 km by river above Linstock. Nearest the Eden: Greenholme Normal; 3 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Brampton Beck, Coal Burn and River Gelt.
Joins the Eden between Great Corby and Linstock, no more than 9.2 km by river above Linstock. Nearest the Eden: Warwick Bridge Low.
Joins the Eden between Linstock and Sands Centre, Carlisle, no more than 3.3 km by river above Sands Centre, Carlisle. Nearest the Eden: Durranhill Pumping Station Low.
Joins the Eden between Linstock and Sands Centre, Carlisle, no more than 2.7 km by river above Sands Centre, Carlisle. Nearest the Eden: Botcherby Bridge, Carlisle Normal; 2 more gauges further up.
Joins the Eden between Sands Centre, Carlisle and Sheepmount, no more than 1.6 km by river above Sheepmount. Nearest the Eden: Little Caldew Maltings Normal.
Joins the Eden between Sands Centre, Carlisle and Sheepmount, no more than 2.5 km by river above Sheepmount. Nearest the Eden: Skew Bridge Normal; 5 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Gill Beck and Roe Beck.
No gauge below Sheepmount 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.
101 storm overflows are traced upstream of Sheepmount, the Eden’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Eden itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Sheepmount: 3,347 spills over 20,617 hours in total, across all 101.
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 Eden includes the smaller streams that join it there. Where a stretch or a tributary has more than 4, the 3 discharging now or nearest its gauge are listed, the rest are counted, and every one is in that gauge’s “Upstream of here” list. Show every overflow in every stretch →
and 3 more: show all 6 overflows on this stretch → All above Great Musgrave Bridge, nearest first →
and 7 more: show all 10 overflows on this stretch → All above Temple Sowerby, nearest first →
and 19 more: show all 22 overflows on this stretch → All above Great Corby, nearest first →
and 12 more: show all 15 overflows on the Eamont and the streams that join it → All above Udford New, nearest first →
and 5 more: show all 8 overflows on this stretch → All above Linstock, nearest first →
and 6 more: show all 9 overflows on this stretch → All above Greenholme, nearest first →
and 7 more: show all 10 overflows on the Petteril and the streams that join it → All above Botcherby Bridge, Carlisle, nearest first →
and 8 more: show all 11 overflows on the Caldew and the streams that join it → All above Skew Bridge, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the Eden’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
5 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.
3 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Eden’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.
240 sampling points on the River Eden and the streams that join it above Sheepmount, and below it. 83 have a sample from the last 12 months; 111 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Eden and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above Kirkby Stephen | 5 points2 sampled | 13 Apr 2026 |
| Above Great Musgrave Bridge | 14 points7 sampled | 8 Sep 2026 |
| River Eamont and its streamsjoins the Eden above Great Corby | 54 points22 sampled | 17 Sep 2026 |
| Above Appleby | 12 points5 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| River Irthing and its streamsjoins the Eden above Linstock | 23 points12 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Temple Sowerby | 29 points15 sampled | 23 Sep 2026 |
| River Caldew and its streamsjoins the Eden above Sheepmount | 38 points19 sampled | 28 Sep 2026 |
| Above Great Corby | 30 points11 sampled | 9 Sep 2026 |
| Above Warwick BridgeTrout Beck · joins the Eden above Linstock | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| River Petteril and its streamsjoins the Eden above Sands Centre, Carlisle | 16 points9 sampled | 11 Sep 2026 |
| Above Linstock | 6 points3 sampled | 12 May 2026 |
| Above Sands Centre, Carlisle | 5 points2 sampled | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Above Little Caldew MaltingsLittle Caldew · joins the Eden above Sheepmount | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| Above Sheepmount | 3 points2 sampled | 28 Aug 2026 |
| Below the lowest gauge | 3 points2 sampled | 12 Aug 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.
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