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Live levels from 3 monitoring stations across Cambridgeshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linton | 0.06 mASD 30m ago | Low | ||
| 9.6 km by river | ||||
| Babraham | 0.06 mASD 30m ago | Normal | ||
| 4.7 km by river | ||||
| Stapleford | 0.03 mASD 30m ago | Low | ||
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 Granta 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 Granta above Stapleford on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.
Below Stapleford, its water next reaches Cambridge Byron's Pool, a gauge on River Rhee, 8.9 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.
2 storm overflows are traced upstream of Stapleford, the Granta’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Granta itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Stapleford: 10 spills over 21 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 Granta includes the smaller streams that join it there.
1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below the Granta’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: © 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.
6 sampling points on the River Granta and the streams that join it above Stapleford. 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granta above Horseheath PS Granta tributary | unnamed stream | 6.0 km | 7 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago | Oxygen 53%Temp 14.4 °CpH 7.25Conductivity 1178 µS/cm |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Granta A1307 Road Bridge Linton Bypass | River Granta | 9.5 km | Last sampled 8 Apr 2014, before the imported period | |
| River Granta Linton Road Bridge | River Granta | 7.9 km | 13 Aug 2026 · 56 days ago | Oxygen 85.5%Temp 15.5 °CpH 7.65Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Granta Hildersham Ford | River Granta | 4.9 km | 3 Sep 2026 · 35 days ago | Oxygen 78.3%Temp 17.7 °CpH 7.78Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Granta Bourn Bridge | River Granta | 1.7 km | Last sampled 16 Apr 2013, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Granta downstream of Sawston Pumping Station | River Granta | 2.6 km | Last sampled 5 Jan 2004, before the imported period |
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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