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Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across West Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holmbridge | 0.45 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 13.7 km by river | ||||
| Queen's Mill | 0.28 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 Holme 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 Holme between Holmbridge and Queen's Mill, no more than 10.5 km by river above Queen's Mill.
| New Mill Holmfirth Road | 0.28 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Queen's Mill and every gauge below it on the Holme. It does not pass Holmbridge or the gauges above it.
Below Queen's Mill, its water next reaches ICI Colne, a gauge on River Colne, 4.6 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.
29 storm overflows are traced upstream of Queen's Mill, the Holme’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Holme itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Queen's Mill: 786 spills over 5,846 hours in total, across all 29.
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 Holme includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Holme’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
36 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Holme’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.
15 sampling points on the River Holme and the streams that join it above Queen's Mill. 1 has a sample from the last 12 months; 2 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramsden Clough upstream of Riding Wood Reservoir | unnamed stream | 3.2 km | Last sampled 4 Sep 2023, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holme at Bottoms Mill Footbridge | River Holme | 12 km | Last sampled 24 Jan 2007, before the imported period | |
| Ribble upstream confluence of Holme | River Ribble | 11 km | Last sampled 24 Jan 2007, before the imported period | |
| Holme at Holmfirth Centre downstream of Ribble confluence | River Holme | 11 km | Last sampled 6 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Sude Hill Dike at New Mill | Sude Hill Dike | 11 km | Last sampled 29 May 2012, before the imported period | |
| Thick Hollins Dike at Bent Ley Road | Thick Hollins Dike | 9.2 km | Last sampled 29 May 2012, before the imported period | |
| Meltham Dike at Huddersfield Road - Meltham | Meltham Dike | 9.2 km | Last sampled 17 Mar 2017, before the imported period | |
| Hall Dike upstream of Meltham sewage treatment works | Hall Dike | 9.1 km | 4 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago | Oxygen 96.5%Temp 13 °CpH 7.8Ammonia 0.067 mg/l |
| New Mill Dike at Luke Lane - Thongsbridge | New Mill Dike | 8.3 km | 5 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 100.4%Temp 5.8 °CpH 7.81Ammonia 0.1 mg/l |
| Hall Dike at Healey House | Hall Dike | 7.9 km | Last sampled 29 May 2012, before the imported period | |
| Holme at Smithy Place - Brockholes | River Holme | 7.1 km | Last sampled 4 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Mag Brook at Cocking Steps | Mag Brook | 6.9 km | Last sampled 29 May 2012, before the imported period | |
| Holme at Honley Bridge | River Holme | 5.6 km | Last sampled 4 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Mag Brook at Honley | Mag Brook | 5.1 km | Last sampled 4 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Dean Clough at Berry Brow | unnamed stream | 2.7 km | Last sampled 31 May 2012, 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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