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Live levels from 3 monitoring stations across Derbyshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holymoorside | 0.00 m 8h ago | Normal | ||
| 3.7 km by river | ||||
| Chesterfield | 0.33 m 30m ago | Low | ||
| 1.9 km by river | ||||
| Chesterfield Park Road Bridge | -0.01 m 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 Hipper 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 Hipper between Chesterfield and Chesterfield Park Road Bridge, no more than 2.1 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge.
| Chesterfield Ashgate | 0.02 m 30m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Chesterfield Park Road Bridge and every gauge below it on the Hipper. It does not pass Chesterfield or the gauges above it.
Below Chesterfield Park Road Bridge, its water next reaches Hady Hill, a gauge on River Rother, 1.1 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.
14 storm overflows are traced upstream of Chesterfield Park Road Bridge, the Hipper’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Hipper itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Chesterfield Park Road Bridge: 340 spills over 1,058 hours in total, across all 14.
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 Hipper includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Hipper’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
21 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Hipper’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.
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.
7 sampling points on the River Hipper and the streams that join it above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge, and below it. 1 has a sample from the last 12 months; 1 has 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hipper at Holymoorside | River Hipper | 0.7 km | Last sampled 12 Jul 2000, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hipper upstream of Holymoorside gauging station | River Hipper | 3.7 km | 19 Feb 2026 · 8 months ago | Oxygen 100.7%Temp 5.2 °CpH 8.04Conductivity 158 µS/cm |
| Hipper downstream of Brookside Beck at Footbridge | River Hipper | 1.2 km | Last sampled 2 Mar 2017, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hipper at Mill Lane - Brampton | River Hipper | 1.6 km | Last sampled 12 Jul 2000, before the imported period | |
| Holme Brook at Monkey Park | Holme Brook | 1.1 km | Last sampled 7 Dec 2022, before the imported period | |
| Holme Brook upstream of Hipper confluence | Holme Brook | 0.5 km | Last sampled 18 May 2017, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hipper at A61 Road Bridge | River Hipper | 0.7 km | Last sampled 20 Mar 2020, 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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