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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Suffolk, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Stowmarket | 0.17 mASD 28m 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 Gipping 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.
Joins the Gipping above Stowmarket, its highest gauge, no more than 10.5 km by river above Stowmarket.
| Rattlesden | 0.07 mASD 28m ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on the Gipping, from Stowmarket down.
No gauge below Stowmarket 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.
2 storm overflows are traced upstream of Stowmarket, the Gipping’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Gipping itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Stowmarket: 8 spills over 6.1 hours in total, across all 2.
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 Gipping includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Gipping’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: © Anglian 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.
25 sampling points on the River Gipping and the streams that join it above Stowmarket, and below it. 12 have a sample from the last 12 months; 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rattlesden River Drinkstone Road Bridge | Rattlesden River | 0.8 km | 29 Sep 2026 · 9 days ago | Oxygen 110.5% May 2026Temp 10.9 °C May 2026pH 8.38 May 2026Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l May 2026 |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rattlesden River Reed Corner Bridge | Rattlesden River | 7.3 km | Last sampled 23 Jan 2017, before the imported period | |
| Great Finborough watercourse Jack's Lane | unnamed stream | 7.1 km | 11 Sep 2026 · 27 days ago | Oxygen 87.4% May 2026Temp 10.6 °C May 2026pH 7.95 May 2026Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l May 2026 |
| WFD Rattlesden tributary opposite Golf Course | unnamed stream | 6.6 km | Last sampled 23 Jan 2017, before the imported period | |
| Haughley watercourse the Folly Road Bridge | unnamed stream | 6.4 km | 7 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 59.2%Temp 9.7 °CpH 7.57Ammonia 0.059 mg/l |
| Rattlesden River Finborough Park Bridge | Rattlesden River | 5.7 km | Last sampled 27 Feb 2017, before the imported period | |
| Rattlesden River Stowmarket Golf Course | Rattlesden River | 5.3 km | 3 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago | Oxygen 86.8%Temp 7.2 °CpH 7.83Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Rattlesden River Burford Bridge | Rattlesden River | 4.2 km | Last sampled 9 Feb 2007, before the imported period | |
| River Gipping Bridge Farm | River Gipping | 3.1 km | 4 Sep 2026 · 34 days ago | Oxygen 71%Temp 17.7 °CpH 7.63Ammonia 0.54 mg/l |
| River Gipping Station Road Bridge Stowmarket | River Gipping | 1.2 km | 11 Sep 2026 · 27 days ago | Oxygen 75.8%Temp 15.9 °CpH 7.91Ammonia 0.035 mg/l |
| Rattlesden River upstream of confluence (River Gip.) | Rattlesden River | 0.1 km | 4 Sep 2026 · 34 days ago | Oxygen 69.4%Temp 17.2 °CpH 7.9Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Gipping upstream of Munton and Fisons | River Gipping | 0.9 km | 21 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 76.6%Temp 14.7 °CpH 7.74Ammonia 0.11 mg/l |
| River Gipping Badley Mill | River Gipping | 2.4 km | 6 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago | Oxygen 104.9%Temp 9.8 °CpH 8.12Ammonia 0.047 mg/l |
| River Gipping Hawkes Mill | River Gipping | 5.1 km | Last sampled 2 Mar 2023, before the imported period | |
| River Gipping Quintons Mill | River Gipping | 6.3 km | Last sampled 9 Jan 2020, before the imported period | |
| River Gipping, Riverside Farm | River Gipping | 7.3 km | 9 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago | Oxygen 94.8%Temp 10.4 °CpH 7.93Ammonia 0.12 mg/l |
| River Gipping Blakenham Mill | River Gipping | 12 km | Last sampled 2 Mar 2023, before the imported period | |
| River Gipping Claydon Bridge | River Gipping | 14 km | Last sampled 8 May 2019, before the imported period | |
| River Gipping at Bridge upstream of Scotts Bramford | River Gipping | 16 km | Last sampled 29 Apr 2004, before the imported period | |
| River Gipping Scotts downstream of Boundary Bramford | River Gipping | 16 km | Last sampled 29 Apr 2004, before the imported period | |
| River Gipping Bramford Mill | River Gipping | 18 km | 12 Aug 2026 · 57 days ago | Oxygen 105% May 2026Temp 15.2 °C May 2026pH 7.59Ammonia 0.053 mg/l May 2026 |
| River Gipping Sproughton Mill | River Gipping | 19 km | Last sampled 11 Mar 2019, before the imported period | |
| River Gipping B.S.C. Weir Sproughton | River Gipping | 21 km | Last sampled 17 Feb 2011, before the imported period | |
| River Gipping downstream of Norwich Rail Bridge | River Gipping | 22 km | Last sampled 13 Jan 2020, before the imported period | |
| River Gipping upstream of Horseshoe Weir | River Gipping | 23 km | 21 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago | Oxygen 97.2% Feb 2026Temp 6.1 °C Feb 2026pH 7.73Ammonia 0.065 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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