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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Lancashire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Hodder Place | 0.59 m 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 Hodder above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.
Joins the Hodder above Hodder Place, its highest gauge, no more than 22.2 km by river above Hodder Place.
| Footholme Flume | 0.80 m 12h ago | old reading |
Its water passes every gauge on the Hodder, from Hodder Place down.
Below Hodder Place, its water next reaches New Jumbles Rock, a gauge on River Ribble, 4.7 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.
3 storm overflows are traced upstream of Hodder Place, the Hodder’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Hodder itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Hodder Place: 73 spills over 326 hours in total, across all 3.
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 Hodder includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Hodder’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
3 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Hodder’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.
32 sampling points on the River Hodder and the streams that join it above Hodder Place, and below it. 12 have a sample from the last 12 months; 21 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 Brennand upstream of Waterfalls | Brennand River | 5.0 km | 9 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago | Oxygen 104.8%Temp 6 °CpH 7.37Ammonia 0.0031 mg/l |
| Brennand River above the confluence with River Dunsop | Brennand River | 0.4 km | 16 Sep 2026 · 22 days ago | Oxygen 101.1%Temp 12.1 °CpH 7.46Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Dunsop above the confluence with Brennand River | River Dunsop | 0.3 km | Last sampled 13 Sep 2017, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White Hill Beck near Barn | unnamed stream | 35 km | 7 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago | Oxygen 98.4%Temp 4 °CpH 7.17Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Hodder at Lock Bridge | River Hodder | 35 km | 29 Sep 2026 · 9 days ago | Oxygen 102.1%Temp 11.4 °CpH 7.54Conductivity 65 µS/cm |
| Bottoms Beck at Gauge House | Bottoms Beck | 33 km | 22 May 2025 · 17 months ago | Oxygen 94.5%Temp 12.2 °CpH 8.4Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Phynis Beck at Phynis House | Phynis Beck | 29 km | Last sampled 9 Mar 2015, before the imported period | |
| River Hodder above the confluence with Phynis Brook | River Hodder | 29 km | Last sampled 14 Aug 2014, before the imported period | |
| River Hodder Down Stream of Phynis Brook | River Hodder | 28 km | 29 Sep 2026 · 9 days ago | Oxygen 97.4%Temp 13.1 °CpH 7.93Ammonia 0.011 mg/l May 2026 |
| Skelshaw Brook upstream of Skelshaw | Skelshaw Brook | 27 km | 11 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago | Oxygen 104%Temp 5.9 °CpH 7.38Ammonia 0.0061 mg/l |
| River Hodder at Slaidburn | River Hodder | 26 km | Last sampled 9 Mar 2015, before the imported period | |
| Easington Brook above the confluence with River Hodder | Easington Brook | 24 km | Last sampled 17 Dec 2015, before the imported period | |
| Hareden Brook downstream of Shooting Lodge | Hareden Brook | 22 km | 9 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago | Oxygen 104.1%Temp 6.6 °CpH 7.78Ammonia 0.0038 mg/l Nov 2024 |
| Langden Brook upstream of NWW Intake | Langden Brook | 22 km | Last sampled 5 Nov 2012, before the imported period | |
| Higher Loud Bridge | River Loud | 21 km | Last sampled 17 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| River Hodder at Knowlmere Manor | River Hodder | 21 km | 6 Mar 2024 · 2.6 years ago | pH 8.03 |
| River Loud at Gill Bridge | River Loud | 19 km | 3 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 97.7%Temp 5.8 °CpH 8.03Ammonia 0.23 mg/l |
| River Dunsop above the confluence with River Hodder | River Dunsop | 19 km | 21 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 102%Temp 12.1 °CpH 7.94Ammonia 0.0042 mg/l |
| Langden Brook above the confluence with River Hodder | Langden Brook | 18 km | 16 Sep 2026 · 22 days ago | Oxygen 99.8%Temp 12.2 °CpH 7.78Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Higgin Brook above the confluence with River Loud | Higgin Brook | 18 km | 3 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 82.4%Temp 6.1 °CpH 7.7Ammonia 0.27 mg/l |
| River Hodder downstream of Langden Brook | River Hodder | 17 km | 28 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago | Oxygen 136.3%Temp 19.6 °CpH 9.21Ammonia 0.0022 mg/l |
| River Hodder at Burholme Bridge | River Hodder | 16 km | Last sampled 6 Dec 2006, before the imported period | |
| Leagram Brook at Slater Hill | Leagram Brook | 15 km | 18 Aug 2026 · 51 days ago | Oxygen 100.1%Temp 15.8 °CpH 7.82Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Chipping Brook 200 m upstream of Chipping sewage treatment works | Chipping Brook | 13 km | 21 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 102.7%Temp 11.8 °CpH 8.25Ammonia 0.038 mg/l |
| River Loud above the confluence with Chipping Brook | River Loud | 13 km | 3 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 84.4%Temp 6.1 °CpH 7.67Ammonia 0.61 mg/l |
| Chipping Brook 200 m downstream of Chipping sewage treatment works | Chipping Brook | 13 km | Last sampled 10 Apr 2008, before the imported period | |
| Lees Beck at Palewood - Lees Beck | unnamed stream | 12 km | 17 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago | Oxygen 96% Dec 2025Temp 7.1 °C Dec 2025pH 7.84 Dec 2025Ammonia below 0.002 mg/l Dec 2025 |
| Greystoneley Brook upstream of Wardsley | Greystoneley Brook | 11 km | Last sampled 6 Dec 2006, before the imported period | |
| Hodder upstream of River Loud & upstream of Stakes Farm | River Hodder | 10 km | Last sampled 15 Mar 2010, before the imported period | |
| River Loud above the confluence with River Hodder | River Loud | 9.2 km | 21 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 90%Temp 12.1 °CpH 7.83Ammonia 0.16 mg/l |
| River Hodder near Bashall Eaves | River Hodder | 4.5 km | 28 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago | Oxygen 107.9%Temp 18.2 °CpH 8.65Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Hodder at Lower Hodder Bridge | River Hodder | 1.1 km | 20 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 98.9%Temp 11.2 °CpH 7.9Ammonia 0.0062 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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