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Live levels from 16 monitoring stations across Cambridgeshire, City of Peterborough, North Northamptonshire, West Northamptonshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dodford | 0.08 mASD 44m ago | Normal | ||
| separate channels: their water meets further down | ||||
| Brixworth | 0.04 m 29m ago | Low | ||
| separate channels: their water meets further down | ||||
| Kislingbury | 0.09 mASD 29m ago | Normal | ||
| separate channels: their water meets further down | ||||
| Geldharts Mill | 0.19 mASD 29m ago | Normal | ||
| separate channels: their water meets further down | ||||
| Duston Mill | 0.56 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| separate channels: their water meets further down | ||||
| St Andrews Bypass | -0.08 m 29m ago | Low | ||
| 380 m by river | ||||
| St Andrews Mill | 0.14 mASD 29m ago | Normal | ||
| 2.1 km by river | ||||
| South Bridge | 1.14 mASD 29m ago | Normal | ||
| 2.5 km by river | ||||
| Bedford Road Sluicestructure | 1.03 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 2.2 km by river | ||||
| Nene Valley | 0.29 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||||
| Cogenhoe | 0.39 mASD 29m ago | Normal | ||
| 33.5 km by river | ||||
| Islip Sluicestructure | 0.73 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 9.3 km by river | ||||
| Lilford | 0.38 mASD 29m ago | Normal | ||
| 29.9 km by river | ||||
| Wansford | 0.24 mASD 29m ago | Normal | ||
| 13.2 km by river | ||||
| Orton Sluicestructure | 1.14 mASD 29m ago | Normal | ||
These gauges are filed under the Nene, but the river map places them on another watercourse, so they are not in the Nene’s order above.
| Little Bridgeon Morton's Leam | 0.58 mASD 29m ago | Normal | ||
| Downstream of Orton Sluice. | ||||
Also on the Nene by the river map, but filed under another river name: Weedon, DUSTON MILL GS NORTHAMPTON, SOUTH BRIDGE GS NORTHAMPTON WITS and WANSFORD A47 NO1 WITS.
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 Nene 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 Nene between Dodford and Kislingbury, no more than 7.1 km by river above Kislingbury.
| Bugbrooke | 75.81 mASD 29m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Kislingbury and every gauge below it on the Nene. It does not pass Dodford or the gauges above it.
Joins the Nene between Kislingbury and Duston Mill, no more than 2.5 km by river above Duston Mill.
| Wootton Park | 0.17 mASD 29m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Duston Mill and every gauge below it on the Nene. It does not pass Kislingbury or the gauges above it.
Joins the Nene above St Andrews Bypass, no more than 3.5 km by river above St Andrews Bypass.
| GELDHARTS MILL GS NORTHAMPTON | 0.35 m3/s 29m ago | — |
Its water passes St Andrews Bypass and every gauge below it on the Nene.
Joins the Nene between Cogenhoe and Islip Sluice, no more than 27.5 km by river above Islip Sluice.
| Barford Bridge | 0.04 mASD 29m ago | Normal |
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||
| Slade Brook | 0.12 m 29m ago | Normal |
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||
| Harrowden | 0.17 m 29m ago | Normal |
| 240 m by river | ||
| GREAT HARROWDEN GS | 0.38 m3/s 29m ago | — |
Its water passes Islip Sluice and every gauge below it on the Nene. It does not pass Cogenhoe or the gauges above it.
Joins the Nene between Islip Sluice and Lilford, no more than 9.2 km by river above Lilford.
| Brigstock | 0.02 mASD 29m ago | Low |
| 8.1 km by river | ||
| Old Mill Bridge, Lowick | 0.17 mASD 29m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Lilford and every gauge below it on the Nene. It does not pass Islip Sluice or the gauges above it.
Joins the Nene above WANSFORD A47 NO1 WITS, no more than 9.4 km by river above WANSFORD A47 NO1 WITS.
| Weldon Flood Storage Reservoirstructure | 0.02 mASD 29m ago | Normal |
| 24.9 km by river | ||
| Fotheringhay | 0.13 mASD 29m ago | Normal |
| same site | ||
| FOTHERINGHAY GS | 0.50 m3/s 29m ago | — |
Its water passes WANSFORD A47 NO1 WITS.
Below Orton Sluice, its water next reaches Little Bridge, a gauge on Morton's Leam (distance by river not measured).
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.
114 storm overflows are traced upstream of Orton Sluice, the Nene’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Nene itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Orton Sluice: 1,255 spills over 7,048 hours in total, across the 113 that have a figure. 1 has no 2025 figure.
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 Nene includes the smaller streams that join it there. Where a stretch or a tributary has more than 4, the 3 discharging now or nearest its gauge are listed, the rest are counted, and every one is in that gauge’s “Upstream of here” list. Show every overflow in every stretch →
and 3 more: show all 6 overflows on this stretch → All above Kislingbury, nearest first →
and 3 more: show all 6 overflows on this stretch → All above Bedford Road Sluice, nearest first →
and 37 more: show all 40 overflows on this stretch → All above Islip Sluice, nearest first →
and 15 more: show all 18 overflows on the Ise and the streams that join it → All above GREAT HARROWDEN GS, nearest first →
and 8 more: show all 11 overflows on this stretch → All above WANSFORD A47 NO1 WITS, nearest first →
and 3 more: show all 6 overflows on this stretch → All above SOUTH BRIDGE GS NORTHAMPTON WITS, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the Nene’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
17 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.
2 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Nene’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: © Anglian 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.
136 sampling points on the River Nene and the streams that join it above Orton Sluice, and below it. 82 have a sample from the last 12 months; 94 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Nene and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above DODFORD GS | 2 points | 2 Sep 2026 |
| Above WeedonWeedon Beck | 3 points2 sampled | 13 Aug 2026 |
| Above BugbrookeBugbrooke Brook · joins the Nene above Kislingbury | 2 points1 sampled | 7 May 2026 |
| Above Brixworth | 2 points | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Above Kislingbury | 3 points | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Geldharts Mill | 16 points11 sampled | 15 Sep 2026 |
| Above Wootton ParkWootton Brook · joins the Nene above Duston Mill | 3 points | 7 Sep 2026 |
| River Ise and its streamsjoins the Nene above Islip Sluice | 16 points7 sampled | 11 Sep 2026 |
| Above Duston Mill | 3 points2 sampled | 2 Sep 2026 |
| Above South Bridge | 1 point | 1 Sep 2026 |
| Above Bedford Road Sluice | 1 point | 7 May 2026 |
| Above Cogenhoe | 3 points | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Harper's Brook and its streamsjoins the Nene above Lilford | 9 points2 sampled | 18 Sep 2026 |
| Above Islip Sluice | 33 points25 sampled | 23 Sep 2026 |
| Willow Brook and its streamsjoins the Nene above WANSFORD A47 NO1 WITS | 12 points9 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Above Lilford | 4 points3 sampled | 1 Sep 2026 |
| Above WANSFORD A47 NO1 WITS | 14 points12 sampled | 11 Sep 2026 |
| Above Orton Sluice | 7 points3 sampled | 9 Sep 2026 |
| Below the lowest gauge | 2 points | 18 Sep 2026 |
England's samples only. Each count opens the list of those points, nearest first, with the date of each one’s latest sample (the gauge’s “Upstream of here” list).
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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