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Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across Cumberland, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Blennerhasset Bridge | 0.67 m 1h ago | Normal |
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continues from the section above: 11.1 km by river below Blennerhasset Bridge | ||||
| Bull Gill | 0.40 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 Ellen 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 Ellen above Bull Gill on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.
No gauge below Bull Gill 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.
13 storm overflows are traced upstream of Bull Gill, the Ellen’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Ellen itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Bull Gill: 1,060 spills over 8,158 hours in total, across all 13.
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 Ellen includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Ellen’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: © 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.
14 sampling points on the River Ellen and the streams that join it above Bull Gill. 3 have a sample from the last 12 months; 6 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 Ellen at Overwater | unnamed stream | 15 km | 24 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago | |
| Longlands Beck upstream of River Ellen | Longlands Beck | 14 km | Last sampled 13 Mar 2015, before the imported period | |
| River Ellen at Stanthwaite Bridge | River Ellen | 13 km | 14 Sep 2026 · 24 days ago | Oxygen 101.7%Temp 14.3 °CpH 7.96Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Ellen at Boltongate | River Ellen | 7.1 km | 7 Mar 2024 · 2.6 years ago | Oxygen 101.6%Temp 6.7 °CpH 8.05Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Cockshot Beck 50 m downstream of Torpenhow sewage treatment works | Cockshot Beck | 4.3 km | Last sampled 24 Apr 2017, before the imported period | |
| Cockshot Beck above the confluence with River Ellen | Cockshot Beck | 4.2 km | Last sampled 24 Nov 2006, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bothel Beck at Old School House, Bothel | Bothel Beck | 13 km | 10 Sep 2026 · 28 days ago | Oxygen 99.7%Temp 14 °CpH 8.82Ammonia below 0.002 mg/l |
| Gill Gooden at Ny 18387 38954 | Bothel Beck | 13 km | Last sampled 4 May 2021, before the imported period | |
| Threapland Gill above the confluence with Gill Gooden | Threapland Gill | 8.5 km | Last sampled 9 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Gill Gooden above the confluence with River Ellen | Gill Gooden | 8.3 km | Last sampled 22 Apr 2021, before the imported period | |
| River Ellen at Harriston | River Ellen | 8.3 km | Last sampled 23 Sep 2015, before the imported period | |
| River Ellen at Arkleby Mill | River Ellen | 6.2 km | 4 Jan 2024 · 2.8 years ago | pH 7.67 |
| Salterwath Beck above the confluence with River Ellen | River Ellen | 2.7 km | Last sampled 27 Nov 2006, before the imported period | |
| River Ellen at Bullgill Bridge | River Ellen | 0.1 km | 11 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 102.9%Temp 5.4 °CpH 8.36Ammonia 0.078 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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