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River Leach water levels

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

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
LechladestructureLechlade On Thames0.06 mASD 23m 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.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Leach 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.

No gauged tributary joins the Leach above Lechlade on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where the Leach goes

Below Lechlade, its water next reaches Buscot Lock, a gauge on River Thames, 2.2 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.

Storm overflows upstream

1 storm overflow is traced upstream of Lechlade, the Leach’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Leach itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

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

Official figures for 2025, for the overflow traced upstream of Lechlade: 5 spills over 31 hours.

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 Leach includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Lechlade, the Leach’s highest gauge1 overflow
  • Northleach WwTW Not discharging
    Thames Water · into River Leach · 27.9 km by river above Lechlade · 2025: 5 spills, 31 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Lechlade WwTW Not discharging
    Thames Water · into River Leach · 70 m from Lechlade in a straight line · too close to Lechlade to say which side · 2025: 11 spills, 161 h

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: © Thames 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.

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.

3 sampling points on the River Leach and the streams that join it above Lechlade, and below it. 3 have a sample from the last 12 months; 3 have any sample banked. Listed from the source down, grouped by the next gauge each one's water reaches.

Above Lechlade River Leach 2 points
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Upstream of Deans FarmRiver Leach17 km28 Sep 2026 · 10 days agoOxygen 138.2% Feb 2026Temp 11.4 °C Feb 2026pH 8 Feb 2026Ammonia below 0.002 mg/l Feb 2026
Leach at FyfieldRiver Leach7.7 km9 Sep 2026 · 29 days agoOxygen 100.7%Temp 12.2 °CpH 7.99Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
Below Lechlade 1 point
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Below the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Leach at B4449, LechladeRiver Leach0.3 km10 Sep 2026 · 28 days agoOxygen 90.6%Temp 13.8 °CpH 8.25Ammonia below 0.03 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.