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River Keekle water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Cumberland, updated every 15 minutes.

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
St LeonardsCleator0.52 m 1h agoNormal—

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.

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Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Keekle above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.

No gauged tributary joins the Keekle above St Leonards on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where the Keekle goes

Below St Leonards, its water next reaches Egremont, a gauge on River Ehen, 3.2 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.

Streams without a gauge

Named streams on the river map that flow into the Keekle and have no gauge of their own. Each has a page with what is known about it: the next gauge downstream, and any storm overflows or water-sampling points placed on it.

  • Nor Beck (joins about 1.5 km above St Leonards)

Storm overflows upstream

3 storm overflows are traced upstream of St Leonards, the Keekle’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Keekle itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 2 not discharging
  • 1 offline or silent: 1 monitor offline, 0 status unknown, 0 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of St Leonards: 191 spills over 1,960 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 Keekle includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above St Leonards, the Keekle’s highest gauge3 overflows
  • Keekle Pumping Station Not discharging bathing water
    United Utilities · into River Keekle · 3.1 km by river above St Leonards · 2025: 147 spills, 1,533 h
  • Rear Garden Of 16 Crossings Close Not discharging
    United Utilities · into Nor Beck · 2.3 km by river above St Leonards · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Blind Lane CSO 02627 Monitor offline
    United Utilities · into River Keekle · 1.4 km by river above St Leonards · 2025: 44 spills, 427 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

Within 3 km of one of the Keekle’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.

  • Norbeck Park A CSO (Site 023a9) Not discharging
    United Utilities · into Norbeck · 1.9 km from St Leonards in a straight line · several watercourses close by, nothing to choose between them · 2025: 29 spills, 15 h
  • Linethwaite Pumping Station Not discharging bathing water
    United Utilities · into Needless Beck · 2.2 km from St Leonards in a straight line · its water cannot be followed on the map · 2025: 1 spill, 0.5 h
  • St Bridgets Lane CSO Not discharging bathing water
    United Utilities · into Culv't'd Sect Of Skirting Beck · 2.9 km from St Leonards in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h

6 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Keekle’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.

Water samples

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.

10 sampling points on the River Keekle and the streams that join it above St Leonards, and below it. 0 have 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.

Above St Leonards River Keekle 9 points, 1 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
River Keekle upstream of OatlandsRiver Keekle11 km3 Jan 2024 · 2.8 years agopH 7.41
River Keekle downstream of OatlandsRiver Keekle10 kmLast sampled 9 Feb 2004, before the imported period
River Keekle upstream of WalkmillRiver Keekle7.1 kmLast sampled 8 Dec 2009, before the imported period
Keekle at Walkmill BridgeRiver Keekle6.8 kmLast sampled 16 Sep 2019, before the imported period
Keekle at Former OpencastRiver Keekle5.7 kmLast sampled 4 Dec 2003, before the imported period
Keekle upstream of DeltaRiver Keekle4.6 kmLast sampled 30 Mar 2005, before the imported period
Dub Beck above the confluence with River KeekleDub Beck4.3 kmLast sampled 8 Jun 2015, before the imported period
River Keekle at Keekle BridgeRiver Keekle4.3 kmLast sampled 16 Sep 2019, before the imported period
River Keekle at Keekle GroveRiver Keekle2.6 kmLast sampled 7 Dec 2006, before the imported period
Below St Leonards 1 point, 0 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Below the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
River Keekle at Cleator 20YDS upstream of EhenRiver Keekle0.7 kmLast sampled 30 Sep 2014, 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.

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