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Live levels from 18 monitoring stations across East Riding of Yorkshire, East Sussex, North Yorkshire, West Sussex, York, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardingly | 0.08 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 3.4 km by river | ||||
| Lindfield Bridge | 1.21 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 4.8 km by river | ||||
| Freshfield Bridge | -0.02 mASD 1h ago | Low | ||
| 8.6 km by river | ||||
| Goldbridge | 0.30 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 8.3 km by river | ||||
| Anchor Gates | 6.06 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 1.6 km by river | ||||
| Barcombe Gates | 5.30 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 130 m by river | ||||
| Barcombestructure | 2.57 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 7.3 km by river | ||||
| Lewes Corporation Yardtidal | 1.89 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monkton | 0.53 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 5.4 km by river | ||||
| Skelton | 1.12 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 3.9 km by river | ||||
| Clifton Ings Outfall | 5.59 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 1.8 km by river | ||||
| Viking Recorder | 0.58 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 860 m by river | ||||
| York Foss Barrier | 5.55 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continues from the section above: 8.5 km by river below York Foss Barrier | ||||
| Naburn Lockstructure | 0.88 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 8.9 km by river | ||||
| Cawoodtidal | 2.40 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 12.7 km by river | ||||
| Selby Westmilltidal | 0.93 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continues from the section above: 26.3 km by river below Selby Westmill | ||||
| Gooletidal | -0.81 mAOD 1h ago | — | ||
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continues from the section above: 12.1 km by river below Goole | ||||
| Blacktofttidal | -1.01 mAOD 1h ago | — | ||
Also on the Ouse by the river map, but filed under another river name: GOLDBRIDGE GS and Barcombe USGS.
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 Ouse 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 Ouse between Ardingly and Lindfield Bridge, no more than 4.0 km by river above Lindfield Bridge.
| ARDINGLY SHELLBROOK GS | 0.16 m3/s 1h ago | — |
Its water passes Lindfield Bridge and every gauge below it on the Ouse. It does not pass Ardingly or the gauges above it.
Joins the Ouse between Lindfield Bridge and Freshfield Bridge, no more than 5.2 km by river above Freshfield Bridge.
| Scrasebridge | 0.05 mASD 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Freshfield Bridge and every gauge below it on the Ouse. It does not pass Lindfield Bridge or the gauges above it.
Joins the Ouse between Goldbridge and Anchor Gates, no more than 5.4 km by river above Anchor Gates.
| Buxted | 0.10 mASD 1h ago | Normal |
| 3.8 km by river | ||
| Uckfield Mill upstream | 0.25 mASD 1h ago | Low |
| 3.5 km by river | ||
| Isfield weirstructure | 0.18 mASD 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Anchor Gates and every gauge below it on the Ouse. It does not pass Goldbridge or the gauges above it.
Below Lewes Corporation Yard, its water next reaches Newhaven, 13.1 km by river downstream.
Each tributary’s water passes the gauge it joins above and every gauge below it on the Ouse, and none of the gauges above where it joins. For each, the gauge nearest the Ouse is shown; its own page lists the rest.
Joins the Ouse above Monkton, its highest gauge, no more than 4.3 km by river above Monkton. Nearest the Ouse: Newton on Ouse Normal.
Joins the Ouse above Monkton, its highest gauge, no more than 8.9 km by river above Monkton. Nearest the Ouse: Skip Bridge Normal; 7 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Reservoir and River Crimple.
Joins the Ouse above Monkton, its highest gauge, no more than 10.2 km by river above Monkton. Nearest the Ouse: Aldwark Bridge Normal; 35 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Snaizeholme Beck, Swinney Beck, Bishop Monkton Beck, River Skell, River Swale and River Tutt.
Joins the Ouse between Skelton and Clifton Ings Outfall, no more than 580 m by river above Clifton Ings Outfall. Nearest the Ouse: Holgate Normal.
Joins the Ouse between Clifton Ings Outfall and Viking Recorder, no more than 3.1 km by river above Viking Recorder. Nearest the Ouse: Rawcliffe Normal.
Joins the Ouse between York Foss Barrier and Naburn Lock, no more than 8.6 km by river above Naburn Lock. Nearest the Ouse: York Foss Barrier Normal; 5 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Tang Hall Beck.
Joins the Ouse between Naburn Lock and Cawood, no more than 5.1 km by river above Cawood. Nearest the Ouse: Nun Appleton Fleet Pumping Station Normal; 17 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Hebden Beck, Town Beck, Bardsey Beck and Bramham Beck.
Joins the Ouse between Naburn Lock and Cawood, no more than 5.2 km by river above Cawood. Nearest the Ouse: Nun Appleton Fleet Pumping Station Normal.
Joins the Ouse between Cawood and Selby Westmill, no more than 200 m by river above Selby Westmill. Nearest the Ouse: Selby Dam Pumping Station Normal.
Joins the Ouse between Selby Westmill and Goole, no more than 10.4 km by river above Goole. Nearest the Ouse: Airmyn; 114 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Aire Washlands, Gowdall Ings and Wheelan Dyke.
Joins the Ouse between Selby Westmill and Goole, no more than 15.1 km by river above Goole. Nearest the Ouse: Barmby Normal; 36 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Brompton Beck, Thornton Beck, River Rye, Mill Beck, Priorpot Beck, Bielby Beck, Blackfoss Beck and Elvington Beck.
Joins the Ouse between Goole and Blacktoft, no more than 34.1 km by river above Blacktoft. Nearest the Ouse: Fishlake Woodhouse Ings (Temporary) Low.
Joins the Ouse between Goole and Blacktoft, no more than 27.3 km by river above Blacktoft. Nearest the Ouse: Fishlake Normal; 72 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: The Porter River, River Loxley, Bagley Dike, Car Brook, Porter Brook, River Sheaf, Blackburn Brook, River Rother, Dearne Washlands, Kearsley Brook, Ea Beck and New Cut.
Joins the Ouse between Goole and Blacktoft, no more than 21.8 km by river above Blacktoft. Nearest the Ouse: Went Outfall Normal; 3 more gauges further up.
No gauge below Blacktoft is known on the river map.
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.
28 storm overflows are traced upstream of Lewes Corporation Yard, the Ouse’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Ouse itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Lewes Corporation Yard: 591 spills over 5,213 hours in total, across all 28.
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 Ouse includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Ouse’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
1,247 storm overflows are traced upstream of Blacktoft, the Ouse’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Ouse itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Blacktoft: 32,476 spills over 186,303 hours in total, across the 1,240 that have a figure. 7 had no usable monitor data that year.
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 Ouse 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 2 more: show all 5 overflows on this stretch → All above Monkton, nearest first →
and 47 more: show all 50 overflows on the Nidd and the streams that join it → All above Skip Bridge, nearest first →
and 105 more: show all 108 overflows on the Ure and the streams that join it → All above Aldwark Bridge, nearest first →
and 3 more: show all 6 overflows on this stretch → All above Holgate, nearest first →
and 10 more: show all 13 overflows on this stretch → All above Viking Recorder, nearest first →
and 2 more: show all 5 overflows on this stretch → All above York Foss Barrier, nearest first →
and 8 more: show all 11 overflows on this stretch → All above Naburn Lock, nearest first →
and 17 more: show all 20 overflows on the Foss and the streams that join it → All above York Foss Barrier, nearest first →
and 64 more: show all 67 overflows on the Wharfe and the streams that join it → All above Nun Appleton Fleet Pumping Station, nearest first →
and 555 more: show all 558 overflows on the Aire and the streams that join it → All above Airmyn, nearest first →
and 66 more: show all 69 overflows on the Derwent and the streams that join it → All above Barmby, nearest first →
and 310 more: show all 313 overflows on the Don and the streams that join it → All above Fishlake, nearest first →
and 9 more: show all 12 overflows on the Went and the streams that join it → All above Went Outfall, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the Ouse’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
30 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.
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: © Southern Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Live status: © Yorkshire 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.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on these rivers and their streams:
36 sampling points on the River Ouse and the streams that join it above Lewes Corporation Yard. 13 have a sample from the last 12 months; 24 have any sample banked.
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above Ardingly | 7 points3 sampled | 28 Sep 2026 |
| Above Freshfield Bridge | 3 points | 21 May 2026 |
| River Uck and its streamsjoins the Ouse above Anchor Gates | 7 points5 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Goldbridge | 3 points | 15 Sep 2026 |
| Above Anchor Gates | 7 points6 sampled | 27 May 2026 |
| Above Barcombe USGS | 7 points3 sampled | 5 May 2026 |
| Above Barcombe | 1 point | 3 Jul 2026 |
| Above Lewes Corporation Yard | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
1,174 sampling points on the River Ouse and the streams that join it above Blacktoft. 382 have a sample from the last 12 months; 583 have any sample banked.
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| River Ure and its streamsjoins the Ouse above Monkton | 219 points159 sampled | 23 Sep 2026 |
| River Wharfe and its streamsjoins the Ouse above Cawood | 97 points53 sampled | 11 Sep 2026 |
| River Nidd and its streamsjoins the Ouse above Monkton | 59 points47 sampled | 23 Sep 2026 |
| River Aire and its streamsjoins the Ouse above Goole | 314 points108 sampled | 23 Sep 2026 |
| River Derwent and its streamsjoins the Ouse above Goole | 149 points80 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| River Don and its streamsjoins the Ouse above Blacktoft | 243 points85 sampled | 30 Sep 2026 |
| River Foss and its streamsjoins the Ouse above Naburn Lock | 17 points15 sampled | 8 Sep 2026 |
| Above Newton on OuseRiver Kyle · joins the Ouse above Monkton | 9 points6 sampled | 18 Sep 2026 |
| Above Monkton | 6 points4 sampled | 28 May 2026 |
| Above Skelton | 7 points3 sampled | 3 Mar 2025 |
| Above HolgateHolgate Beck · joins the Ouse above Clifton Ings Outfall | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| Above Clifton Ings Outfall | 1 point | 12 Aug 2026 |
| Above Viking Recorder | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| Above York Foss Barrier | 1 point | 12 Dec 2023 |
| Above Naburn Lock | 2 points0 sampled | none banked |
| Above Nun Appleton Fleet Pumping StationThe Fleet · joins the Ouse above Cawood | 1 point | 2 Sep 2026 |
| Above Cawood | 2 points1 sampled | 3 Dec 2025 |
| River Went and its streamsjoins the Ouse above Blacktoft | 24 points7 sampled | 11 Sep 2026 |
| Above Selby Dam Pumping StationSelby Dam · joins the Ouse above Selby Westmill | 7 points4 sampled | 15 Sep 2026 |
| Above Selby Westmill | 9 points4 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Goole | 2 points | 12 Aug 2026 |
| Above Blacktoft | 3 points2 sampled | 10 Mar 2025 |
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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