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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Cumberland, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Greenholme | 0.31 m 27m 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 Irthing 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 Irthing above Greenholme, its highest gauge, no more than 7.9 km by river above Greenholme.
| Brampton Moat Side | 0.04 m 27m ago | Low |
Its water passes every gauge on the Irthing, from Greenholme down.
Joins the Irthing above Greenholme, its highest gauge, no more than 48.2 km by river above Greenholme.
| Coalburn Beck | 0.14 m 27m ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on the Irthing, from Greenholme down.
Joins the Irthing above Greenholme, its highest gauge, no more than 11.8 km by river above Greenholme.
| Hynam Bridge | 0.39 m 4h ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on the Irthing, from Greenholme down.
Below Greenholme, its water next reaches Linstock, a gauge on River Eden, 10.3 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.
9 storm overflows are traced upstream of Greenholme, the Irthing’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Irthing itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Greenholme: 294 spills over 855 hours in total, across all 9.
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 Irthing includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Irthing’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
4 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Irthing’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.
24 sampling points on the River Irthing and the streams that join it above Greenholme, and below it. 10 have a sample from the last 12 months; 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coalburn - Howan Burn | Coal Burn | 0.5 km | 7 Sep 2026 · 31 days ago |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Water upstream of Old Water Bridge | Old Water | 4.6 km | 17 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago | Oxygen 98.5%Temp 6.1 °CpH 7.79Ammonia below 0.002 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coal Burn at Ny 6937 7777 | Coal Burn | 48 km | 7 Sep 2026 · 31 days ago | pH 5.5Ammonia 0.014 mg/lNitrate 0.0275 mg/lPhosphate 0.033 mg/l |
| Coal Burn Rainwater Station | Coal Burn | 48 km | 7 Sep 2026 · 31 days ago | pH 4.9Ammonia 0.035 mg/lNitrate 0.618 mg/lPhosphate 0.019 mg/l |
| Butter Burn at Butterburn Bridge | Butter Burn | 42 km | Last sampled 17 Feb 2020, before the imported period | |
| River Irthing upstream of Crammel Linn Waterfall | River Irthing | 34 km | Last sampled 14 Sep 2017, before the imported period | |
| Poltross Burn near Bush Nook | Poltross Burn | 28 km | Last sampled 6 Dec 2022, before the imported period | |
| River Irthing upstream of B6318 | River Irthing | 26 km | Last sampled 4 Mar 2010, before the imported period | |
| King Water South of Kingwater House | King Water | 26 km | 5 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago | Oxygen 101.7%Temp 6.7 °CpH 7.4Ammonia below 0.002 mg/l |
| Merefarm Beck | Melefarm Beck | 20 km | 28 Aug 2026 · 41 days ago | Oxygen 86.9%Temp 15.6 °CpH 8.07Ammonia 0.016 mg/l |
| King Water at Kingbridge Ford | King Water | 19 km | Last sampled 19 Feb 2020, before the imported period | |
| Cam Beck near Askerton Castle | Cam Beck | 18 km | 3 Jun 2024 · 2.3 years ago | Oxygen 98.5% Dec 2023Temp 2.6 °C Dec 2023pH 8.04 Dec 2023Ammonia 0.0097 mg/l Dec 2023 |
| Quarry Beck above the confluence with River Irthing | Quarry Beck | 14 km | Last sampled 24 Mar 2017, before the imported period | |
| River Irthing at Lanercost | River Irthing | 14 km | 24 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago | Oxygen 100.2%Temp 8.2 °CpH 8.07Ammonia 0.004 mg/l |
| Scale Sike upstream of Cam Beck | Scale Sike | 11 km | 6 Jan 2026 · 9 months ago | Oxygen 89.6% Dec 2025Temp 6 °C Dec 2025pH 5.62 Dec 2025Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l Dec 2025 |
| King Water at Dovecote Bridge | King Water | 11 km | Last sampled 27 Apr 2017, before the imported period | |
| Hell Beck at Hell Beck Bridge | Hell Beck | 7.6 km | Last sampled 21 Jul 2004, before the imported period | |
| Cam Beck above the confluence with River Irthing | Cam Beck | 6.9 km | Last sampled 18 Aug 2015, before the imported period | |
| Brampton Beck downstream of Brampton at NY52156135 | Brampton Beck | 6.9 km | Last sampled 28 Nov 2006, before the imported period | |
| Brampton Beck | Brampton Beck | 6.4 km | 5 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago | Oxygen 99.7%Temp 8.1 °CpH 8.12Ammonia 0.11 mg/l |
| Brampton Beck 50 m downstream of Brampton sewage treatment works | Brampton Beck | 5.3 km | Last sampled 3 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| River Gelt at Low Geltside | River Gelt | 4.9 km | 12 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 102%Temp 9.9 °CpH 8.44Ammonia below 0.002 mg/l |
| River Irthing at Ruleholme Bridge | River Irthing | 3.2 km | 7 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago | pH 7.61 |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Irthing at Newby East | River Irthing | 2.0 km | 12 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 131.8%Temp 12.5 °CpH 8.49Ammonia below 0.002 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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