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Live levels from 3 monitoring stations across Worcestershire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildmoor Flume | 0.14 mASD 11h ago | Normal | ||
| 11.0 km by river | ||||
| Stoke Prior | 0.14 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 14.4 km by river | ||||
| Harford Hill | 0.20 mASD 1h 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 Salwarpe 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 Salwarpe above Stoke Prior, no more than 4.5 km by river above Stoke Prior.
| Bromsgrove Burcot Avenue | 0.06 mASD 1h ago | Normal |
| 2.0 km by river | ||
| Bromsgrove Factory Lane | 0.46 mASD 1h ago | Low |
Its water passes Stoke Prior and every gauge below it on the Salwarpe.
Below Harford Hill, its water next reaches Worcester (Barbourne), a gauge on River Severn, 11.3 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.
3 storm overflows are traced upstream of Harford Hill, the Salwarpe’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Salwarpe itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Harford Hill: 25 spills over 153 hours in total, across all 3.
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 Salwarpe includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Salwarpe’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below the Salwarpe’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.
21 sampling points on the River Salwarpe and the streams that join it above Harford Hill, and below it. 11 have a sample from the last 12 months; 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battlefield Brook at Swan Lane Wildmoor | unnamed stream | 0.5 km | Last sampled 5 Dec 2003, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battlefield Brook at Fockbury Farm | Battlefield Brook | 3.3 km | 20 Aug 2026 · 49 days ago | Oxygen 91%Temp 14.8 °CpH 7.97Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar/Spadebourne Brook upstream Bromsgrove Fringe Green sewage treatment works | Sugar Brook | 2.2 km | 19 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 89.8%Temp 13 °CpH 7.86Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Newton Brook upstream of Bromsgrove sewage treatment works | unnamed stream | 2.0 km | Last sampled 5 Sep 2007, before the imported period | |
| Sugar/Spadebourne Brook Avon Croft Bridge | Sugar Brook | 1.5 km | 12 Jan 2024 · 2.7 years ago | pH 7.47 |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elmbridge Brook tributary | unnamed stream | 18 km | 16 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago | Oxygen 97.5%Temp 8.2 °CpH 8.12Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| River Salwarpe at Stoke Prior | River Salwarpe | 14 km | 12 Feb 2026 · 8 months ago | Oxygen 93.4%Temp 9 °CpH 7.72Conductivity 604 µS/cm |
| Hen Brook Culvert Entry upstream of Bayer | Hen Brook | 14 km | Last sampled 3 Jun 2008, before the imported period | |
| Hen Brook downstream of Shaw Lane Bayer | Hen Brook | 13 km | Last sampled 8 Sep 2008, before the imported period | |
| River Salwarpe at Upton Warren | River Salwarpe | 12 km | Last sampled 4 Sep 2014, before the imported period | |
| Hen Brook at Upton Warren Water | Hen Brook | 12 km | 4 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago | Oxygen 82.5%Temp 8.9 °CpH 7.47Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Body Brook at the M5 Culvert | Body Brook | 5.8 km | Last sampled 11 Feb 2008, before the imported period | |
| River Salwarpe at Chapel Bridge Droitwich | River Salwarpe | 4.8 km | 28 Aug 2026 · 41 days ago | Oxygen 88.8%Temp 17.8 °CpH 7.65Ammonia 0.11 mg/l |
| River Salwarpe at Vine Park Droitwich | River Salwarpe | 4.7 km | Last sampled 5 Aug 2011, before the imported period | |
| River Salwarpe at Kidderminster Road Bridge | River Salwarpe | 4.1 km | Last sampled 5 May 2010, before the imported period | |
| Elmbridge Brook at Newtown Droitwich | Elmbridge Brook | 3.0 km | 9 Sep 2026 · 29 days ago | Oxygen 74.7% Sep 2026Temp 15.3 °CpH 7.91 Sep 2026Ammonia 0.07 mg/l |
| A4133 Wards Bridge, Hadley/Elmley Brook | Hadley Brook | 1.6 km | 24 Aug 2026 · 45 days ago | Oxygen 82%Temp 13.9 °CpH 8.02Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Salwarpe at Harford Hill | River Salwarpe | 1.0 km | 20 Aug 2026 · 49 days ago | Oxygen 89% May 2026Temp 18.3 °C May 2026pH 7.91 May 2026Ammonia 0.091 mg/l May 2026 |
| River Salwarpe at Porters Mill | River Salwarpe | 3.1 km | 20 Aug 2026 · 49 days ago | pH 7.93 |
| Salwarpe at Porters Mill | River Salwarpe | 3.5 km | 9 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago | Oxygen 97.1%Temp 7.3 °CpH 8.08Ammonia 0.16 mg/l |
| River Salwarpe - A449 Bridge, Hawford | River Salwarpe | 6.2 km | 28 Aug 2026 · 41 days ago | Oxygen 83.3%Temp 17.6 °CpH 7.42Ammonia 0.42 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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