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Live levels from 3 monitoring stations across North Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadway Foot | 0.07 m 32m ago | Low | ||
| 28.6 km by river | ||||
| Ness | 0.28 m 32m ago | Low | ||
| 17.3 km by river | ||||
| Howe Bridge | 0.21 m 32m 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 Rye 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 Rye between Broadway Foot and Ness, no more than 15.9 km by river above Ness.
| Helmsley High Street | 0.08 m 32m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Ness and every gauge below it on the Rye. It does not pass Broadway Foot or the gauges above it.
Joins the Rye between Ness and Howe Bridge, no more than 11.8 km by river above Howe Bridge.
| Pickering Costa Beckstructure | 0.13 m 32m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Howe Bridge and every gauge below it on the Rye. It does not pass Ness or the gauges above it.
Joins the Rye between Ness and Howe Bridge, no more than 34.5 km by river above Howe Bridge.
| Cherry Farm | 0.14 m 32m ago | Low |
Its water passes Howe Bridge and every gauge below it on the Rye. It does not pass Ness or the gauges above it.
Joins the Rye between Ness and Howe Bridge, no more than 20.6 km by river above Howe Bridge.
| Hovingham | 0.03 m 32m ago | Low |
Its water passes Howe Bridge and every gauge below it on the Rye. It does not pass Ness or the gauges above it.
Joins the Rye between Ness and Howe Bridge, no more than 9.6 km by river above Howe Bridge.
| Levisham Station | 0.21 m 32m ago | Normal |
| 9.5 km by river | ||
| Pickering Flood Alleviation Schemestructure | 0.37 m 16d ago | old reading |
| 3.2 km by river | ||
| Pickering | 0.09 m 8h ago | Normal |
| 2.6 km by river | ||
| Pickering, Ings Bridge | 0.07 m 32m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Howe Bridge and every gauge below it on the Rye. It does not pass Ness or the gauges above it.
Joins the Rye between Ness and Howe Bridge, no more than 25.2 km by river above Howe Bridge.
| Kirkby Mills | 0.17 m 32m ago | Low |
Its water passes Howe Bridge and every gauge below it on the Rye. It does not pass Ness or the gauges above it.
Joins the Rye between Ness and Howe Bridge, no more than 20.4 km by river above Howe Bridge.
| Nunnington | 0.17 m 33d ago | old reading |
Its water passes Howe Bridge and every gauge below it on the Rye. It does not pass Ness or the gauges above it.
Joins the Rye between Ness and Howe Bridge, no more than 16.6 km by river above Howe Bridge.
| Sinnington | 0.09 m 32m ago | Low |
| 6.3 km by river | ||
| Normanby | 0.03 m 32m ago | Low |
Its water passes Howe Bridge and every gauge below it on the Rye. It does not pass Ness or the gauges above it.
Below Howe Bridge, its water next reaches Malton, A64 Road Bridge, a gauge on River Derwent, 5.6 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.
19 storm overflows are traced upstream of Howe Bridge, the Rye’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Rye itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Howe Bridge: 425 spills over 3,290 hours in total, across all 19.
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 Rye includes the smaller streams that join it there.
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: © 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.
71 sampling points on the River Rye and the streams that join it above Howe Bridge, and below it. 25 have a sample from the last 12 months; 38 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Rye and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above Broadway Foot | 8 points4 sampled | 15 Jul 2026 |
| Above Cherry FarmHodge Beck · joins the Rye above Howe Bridge | 1 point | 15 Dec 2025 |
| Above Kirkby MillsRiver Dove · joins the Rye above Howe Bridge | 4 points1 sampled | 16 Jun 2026 |
| River Seven and its streamsjoins the Rye above Howe Bridge | 12 points6 sampled | 11 Sep 2026 |
| Above NunningtonRiver Riccal · joins the Rye above Howe Bridge | 3 points0 sampled | none banked |
| Above Ness | 10 points5 sampled | 8 Sep 2026 |
| Pickering Beck and its streamsjoins the Rye above Howe Bridge | 5 points4 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Above Howe Bridge | 27 points16 sampled | 11 Sep 2026 |
| Below the lowest gauge | 1 point | 19 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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