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Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across Staffordshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coven | 0.50 mASD 32m ago | Normal | ||
| 10.8 km by river | ||||
| Penkridgestructure | 0.25 mASD 47m 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 Penk 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 Penk between Coven and Penkridge, no more than 13.5 km by river above Penkridge.
| Deepmore Farm | 0.28 mASD 32m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Penkridge and every gauge below it on the Penk. It does not pass Coven or the gauges above it.
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.
9 storm overflows are traced upstream of Penkridge, the Penk’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Penk itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Penkridge: 148 spills over 495 hours in total, across all 9.
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 Penk includes the smaller streams that join it there.
2 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Penk’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: © Severn Trent 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.
23 sampling points on the River Penk and the streams that join it above Penkridge, and below it. 9 have a sample from the last 12 months; 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gains Brook - A5 Bridge Turf Hotel | Gains Brook | 12 km | Last sampled 27 Feb 2020, before the imported period | |
| Saredon/Wyrley/Wash Brook - A5 Road Bridge | Wash Brook | 9.2 km | Last sampled 9 May 2012, before the imported period | |
| Saredon/Wyrley/Wash Brook - Church Bdge | Wash Brook | 7.2 km | 9 Apr 2026 · 6 months ago | Oxygen 94.4%Temp 12.8 °CpH 7.93Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Saredon/Wyrley/Wash Brook - Walk Mill Lane | Wyrley Brook | 6.0 km | Last sampled 14 Jan 2011, before the imported period | |
| Saredon/Wyrley/Wash Brook - Wedges Mill | Wyrley Brook | 4.8 km | 1 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago | pH 7.38 |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilbrook/Moat Brook - downstream of Codsall sewage treatment works | Moat Brook | 5.5 km | Last sampled 20 Sep 2004, before the imported period | |
| Penk at Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve | River Penk | 5.3 km | Last sampled 2 Dec 2022, before the imported period | |
| Waterhead Brook - upstream of Pendeford Tip | Waterhead Brook | 3.8 km | Last sampled 17 Feb 2000, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doley Brook at Gnosall Allotments | Doley Brook | 14 km | 12 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago | Oxygen 42.4%Temp 7.9 °CpH 7.24Ammonia 0.85 mg/l |
| Synth Chems Deepmore Farm. upstream of HMIP | Saredon Brook | 13 km | Last sampled 5 Aug 2003, before the imported period | |
| Synth Chem, A449 Road Bridge, downstream of HMIP | Saredon Brook | 12 km | 17 Aug 2026 · 52 days ago | Oxygen 83.3%Temp 17.4 °CpH 8.03Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Penk - Lower Green-Coven | River Penk | 11 km | 27 Aug 2026 · 42 days ago | Oxygen 78.3%Temp 16.4 °CpH 7.74Ammonia 0.24 mg/l |
| Motteymeadows Brook Marston Road | Wheaton Aston Brook | 10 km | Last sampled 1 Mar 2016, before the imported period | |
| Church Eaton Brook - Church Eaton | Church Eaton Brook | 8.5 km | Last sampled 3 Dec 2021, before the imported period | |
| River Penk - Brewood | River Penk | 8.2 km | Last sampled 5 Dec 2013, before the imported period | |
| Whiston/Longnor Brook, Longnor | Longnor Brook | 7.5 km | 28 May 2026 · 4 months ago | Oxygen 93.2%Temp 16.9 °CpH 7.98Ammonia 0.032 mg/l |
| Horse Brook Ivy House Lane | Horse Brook | 7.2 km | Last sampled 7 Apr 2017, before the imported period | |
| Church Eaton Brook, Mitton | Church Eaton Brook | 4.7 km | Last sampled 1 Mar 2016, before the imported period | |
| Whiston/Longnor Brook - Mitton Manor | Whiston Brook | 4.3 km | Last sampled 3 Aug 2021, before the imported period | |
| Penk tributary at Congreve Lane | unnamed stream | 3.7 km | 4 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago | Oxygen 91%Temp 4.4 °CpH 7.82Ammonia 0.36 mg/l |
| Whiston/Longnor Brook - Whiston Mill | Whiston Brook | 2.6 km | 1 Sep 2026 · 37 days ago | Oxygen 63.8%Temp 14.4 °CpH 7.72Ammonia 0.067 mg/l |
| River Penk - Penkridge-Cuttlestone Bridge | River Penk | 1.2 km | 17 Aug 2026 · 52 days ago | Oxygen 81%Temp 17.1 °CpH 8.08Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Penk - Stafford-Radford Bridge | River Penk | 9.4 km | 14 Sep 2026 · 24 days ago | Oxygen 74.8%Temp 17.4 °CpH 7.78Ammonia 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.
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