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River Pant water levels

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

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0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Copford HallGreat Bardfield0.25 mASD 28m 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 Pant 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 Pant above Copford Hall on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where the Pant goes

Below Copford Hall, its water next reaches Stisted, a gauge on River Blackwater, 22.1 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 Pant 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.

Storm overflows upstream

1 storm overflow is traced upstream of Copford Hall, the Pant’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Pant 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 Copford Hall: 3 spills over 1.2 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 Pant includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Copford Hall, the Pant’s highest gauge1 overflow
  • Great Sampford STW Not discharging
    Anglian Water · into Tributary River Pant Nt · 8.7 km by river above Copford Hall · 2025: 3 spills, 1.2 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: © 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.

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.

8 sampling points on the River Pant and the streams that join it above Copford Hall, 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 Copford Hall River Pant 4 points, 2 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
River Pant Radwinter BridgeRiver Pant12 km7 Sep 2026 · 31 days agoOxygen 67.9%Temp 16.3 °CpH 7.9Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
River Pant upstream of Great Sampford sewage treatment worksRiver Pant8.8 kmLast sampled 19 Nov 2004, before the imported period
River Pant Great Sampford BridgeRiver Pant6.8 km27 Aug 2026 · 42 days agoOxygen 51.3% Jul 2026Temp 20.9 °C Jul 2026pH 7.98 Jul 2026Ammonia 0.29 mg/l Jul 2026
Ely Ouse Disc. Great Sampford O/FRiver Pant6.5 kmLast sampled 18 Oct 2006, before the imported period
Below Copford Hall 4 points, 1 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Below the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
River Pant Petches BridgeRiver Pant4.8 km7 Sep 2026 · 31 days agoOxygen 84.5%Temp 17 °CpH 8.33Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
River Pant Wethersfield Mill B1053 Road BridgeRiver Pant8.5 kmLast sampled 5 Mar 2018, before the imported period
River Pant Codham Mill FordRiver Pant11 kmLast sampled 18 May 2017, before the imported period
River Pant upstream of Bocking ChurchstreetRiver Pant13 kmLast sampled 2 Dec 2022, 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.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

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