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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across North Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Alma Weirstructure | 0.14 m 30m 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 Skell above one of its gauges, from the source down. The river map knows where gauges are, not every stream, so a tributary without a gauge is not listed here.
Joins the Skell above Alma Weir, its highest gauge, no more than 1.6 km by river above Alma Weir.
| Ripon Birkby Nab | 0.27 m 45m ago | Normal |
| 3.7 km by river | ||
| Ripon | 0.04 m 45m ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on the Skell, from Alma Weir down.
Below Alma Weir, its water next reaches Westwick Weir, a gauge on River Ure, 7.4 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.
11 storm overflows are traced upstream of Alma Weir, the Skell’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Skell itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Alma Weir: 146 spills over 263 hours in total, across all 11.
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 Skell includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Skell’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
8 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Skell’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: © 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.
9 sampling points on the River Skell and the streams that join it above Alma Weir, and below it. 6 have a sample from the last 12 months; 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlesmoor Beck at Swetton Bridge | Carlesmoor Beck | 15 km | 24 Apr 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 105.1%Temp 6.9 °CpH 8.02Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Laver at Belford Lane (upstream of Ford) | River Laver | 14 km | 22 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 102.1%Temp 13.1 °CpH 7.75Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Kex Beck downstream of Kirkby Malzeard | Kex Beck | 6.2 km | 23 Sep 2026 · 15 days ago | Oxygen 92%Temp 12.6 °CpH 8.28Ammonia 0.012 mg/l |
| Kex Beck at Azerley | Kex Beck | 3.9 km | 23 Sep 2026 · 15 days ago | Oxygen 94.8%Temp 14.1 °CpH 8.48Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skell at Dallow Moor | River Skell | 21 km | 17 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago | Oxygen 100.3%Temp 5.6 °CpH 4.68Ammonia 0.0058 mg/l |
| Skell at Fountains Abbey | River Skell | 7.3 km | 2 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago | Oxygen 97.2%Temp 8 °CpH 7.61Ammonia 0.039 mg/l |
| Skell at Hell Wath Lane | River Skell | 2.4 km | Last sampled 10 Aug 2021, before the imported period | |
| Skell downstream of Hell Wath Lane | River Skell | 1.9 km | Last sampled 12 Dec 2022, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skell at Wood Bridge - Ripon | River Skell | 0.3 km | 28 May 2026 · 4 months ago | Oxygen 99.1%Temp 13.7 °CpH 8.33Ammonia 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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