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Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across Westmorland and Furness, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bampton Grange | 0.40 m 23m ago | Normal | ||
| 12.4 km by river | ||||
| Eamont Bridge | 0.47 m 23m 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 Lowther 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 Lowther between Bampton Grange and Eamont Bridge, no more than 15.5 km by river above Eamont Bridge.
| Burnbanks | 0.09 m 11h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Eamont Bridge and every gauge below it on the Lowther. It does not pass Bampton Grange or the gauges above it.
Below Eamont Bridge, its water next reaches Udford New, a gauge on River Eamont, 7.8 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.
4 storm overflows are traced upstream of Eamont Bridge, the Lowther’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Lowther itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Eamont Bridge: 226 spills over 2,573 hours in total, across all 4.
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 Lowther includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Lowther’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
6 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Lowther’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.
21 sampling points on the River Lowther and the streams that join it above Eamont Bridge. 7 have a sample from the last 12 months; 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haweswater Beck upstream of Lakeland Smolts | Gill Dubs | 0.8 km | Last sampled 10 Oct 2003, before the imported period | |
| Haweswater Beck downstream | Gill Dubs | 0.7 km | Last sampled 10 Oct 2003, before the imported period | |
| Haweswater Beck upstream of Burnbanks & Weir | Gill Dubs | 0.4 km | Last sampled 27 Oct 2014, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swindale Beck upstream of Swindale Head | Swindale Beck | 10 km | Last sampled 15 May 2023, before the imported period | |
| Swindale Beck near Stubby Hest | Swindale Beck | 6.2 km | 15 Sep 2026 · 23 days ago | Temp 14.1 °CAmmonia below 0.03 mg/lNitrate below 0.196 mg/lPhosphate below 0.01 mg/l |
| Keld Gill (Lowther tributary above the confluence with River Lowther) | Keld Gill | 6.0 km | Last sampled 9 Aug 2006, before the imported period | |
| Swindale Beck at Rosgill Moor Bridge | Swindale Beck | 5.0 km | 13 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 111.2%Temp 13.4 °CpH 8.48Ammonia below 0.002 mg/l |
| River Lowther By Shap Abbey | River Lowther | 4.6 km | Last sampled 6 Mar 2015, before the imported period | |
| Swindale Beck 50 m above the confluence with Lowther | Swindale Beck | 2.7 km | Last sampled 1 Sep 2015, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naddle Beck above the confluence with Haweswater Beck | Naddle Beck | 16 km | 25 Apr 2025 · 17 months ago | Oxygen 111.6%Temp 9.5 °CpH 7.89Ammonia 0.0038 mg/l |
| Haweswater Beck at Naddle Bridge | Haweswater Beck | 16 km | 17 Sep 2026 · 21 days ago | Oxygen 90.3%Temp 15 °CpH 6.96Ammonia 0.14 mg/l Aug 2026 |
| Haweswater Beck downstream of Weir upstream of Burnbanks | Haweswater Beck | 16 km | Last sampled 27 Oct 2014, before the imported period | |
| Haweswater Beck at Naddle Bridge downstream of Naddle Beck | Haweswater Beck | 15 km | Last sampled 5 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Howes Beck upstream of Intake | Howes Beck | 14 km | 17 Sep 2026 · 21 days ago | Oxygen 102.8%Temp 11.3 °CpH 7.8Conductivity 84 µS/cm |
| Haweswater Beck at Bomby Bridge | Haweswater Beck | 13 km | 15 Sep 2026 · 23 days ago | Oxygen 111.7% Apr 2026Temp 15.5 °CpH 7.21 Apr 2026Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Unamed tributary of Haweswater Beck at Walmgate FT | Haweswater Beck | 13 km | Last sampled 27 Oct 2014, before the imported period | |
| Heltondale Beck upstream of Intake | Heltondale Beck | 13 km | 17 Sep 2026 · 21 days ago | Oxygen 103%Temp 12.2 °CpH 7.97Ammonia below 0.002 mg/l Oct 2023 |
| Howes Beck at Bampton | Howes Beck | 13 km | Last sampled 9 Aug 2006, before the imported period | |
| River Lowther at Bampton Grange | River Lowther | 12 km | Last sampled 29 May 2018, before the imported period | |
| Heltondale Beck at Beckfood Bridge | Heltondale Beck | 11 km | Last sampled 9 Aug 2006, before the imported period | |
| River Lowther at Lowther Bridge | River Lowther | 0.4 km | 2 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago | Oxygen 99.5%Temp 7.6 °CpH 7.61Ammonia 0.0047 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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