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Live levels from 5 monitoring stations across Northumberland, Westmorland and Furness, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alston | 0.83 m 22m ago | Normal | ||
| 18.4 km by river | ||||
| Featherstone | 0.60 m 37m ago | Normal | ||
| 20.9 km by river | ||||
| Haydon Bridge Brigwood | 0.36 m 22m ago | Normal | ||
| 1.8 km by river | ||||
| Haydon Bridge | 0.38 m 37m ago | Normal | ||
| 7.8 km by river | ||||
| Warden Bridge End | 0.03 m 22m 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 South Tyne 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 South Tyne between Featherstone and Haydon Bridge Brigwood, no more than 17.5 km by river above Haydon Bridge Brigwood.
| Allen Mill Bridge | 0.23 m 22m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Haydon Bridge Brigwood and every gauge below it on the South Tyne. It does not pass Featherstone or the gauges above it.
Joins the South Tyne above Haydon Bridge Brigwood, no more than 15.9 km by river above Haydon Bridge Brigwood.
| Haltwhistle | 0.74 m 22m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Haydon Bridge Brigwood and every gauge below it on the South Tyne.
Joins the South Tyne between Featherstone and Haydon Bridge Brigwood, no more than 13.7 km by river above Haydon Bridge Brigwood.
| Hindley Wrae Ford | 0.02 m 22m ago | Low |
Its water passes Haydon Bridge Brigwood and every gauge below it on the South Tyne. It does not pass Featherstone or the gauges above it.
Below Warden Bridge End, its water next reaches Hexham, a gauge on River Tyne, 3.6 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.
35 storm overflows are traced upstream of Warden Bridge End, the South Tyne’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the South Tyne itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Warden Bridge End: 765 spills over 4,610 hours in total, across all 35.
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 South Tyne includes the smaller streams that join it there. Where a stretch or a tributary has more than 4, the 3 discharging now or nearest its gauge are listed, the rest are counted, and every one is in that gauge’s “Upstream of here” list. Show every overflow in every stretch →
and 6 more: show all 9 overflows on this stretch → All above Featherstone, nearest first →
and 8 more: show all 11 overflows on this stretch → All above Haydon Bridge Brigwood, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the South Tyne’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
9 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the South Tyne’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: © Northumbrian 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.
148 sampling points on the River South Tyne and the streams that join it above Warden Bridge End. 51 have a sample from the last 12 months; 98 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the South Tyne and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above Alston | 16 points9 sampled | 9 Sep 2026 |
| Above Featherstone | 56 points39 sampled | 16 Sep 2026 |
| Above Allen Mill BridgeRiver East Allen · joins the South Tyne above Haydon Bridge Brigwood | 15 points14 sampled | 28 Jul 2026 |
| Above HaltwhistleRiver Tyne · joins the South Tyne above Haydon Bridge Brigwood | 10 points5 sampled | 8 Sep 2026 |
| Above Hindley Wrae FordRiver West Allen · joins the South Tyne above Haydon Bridge Brigwood | 17 points12 sampled | 8 Sep 2026 |
| Above Haydon Bridge Brigwood | 21 points12 sampled | 8 Sep 2026 |
| Above Haydon Bridge | 2 points | 8 Sep 2026 |
| Above Warden Bridge End | 11 points5 sampled | 5 Aug 2026 |
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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