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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Lincolnshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Wainfleet | 0.78 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 Steeping 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 Steeping above Wainfleet, its highest gauge, no more than 15.8 km by river above Wainfleet.
| Partney | 0.05 mASD 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on the Steeping, from Wainfleet down.
No gauge below Wainfleet is known on the river map.
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.
1 storm overflow is traced upstream of Wainfleet, the Steeping’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Steeping itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflow traced upstream of Wainfleet: 16 spills over 137 hours.
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 Steeping includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Steeping’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
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: © Anglian 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.
7 sampling points on the River Steeping and the streams that join it above Wainfleet. 4 have a sample from the last 12 months; 5 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lymn/Steeping Burt Hill Plantation | River Lymn | 13 km | 29 May 2026 · 4 months ago | Oxygen 88.1%Temp 14.2 °CpH 7.56Ammonia 0.036 mg/l |
| Ashby Puerorum Beck at downstream of Medbourne | unnamed stream | 11 km | 7 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago | Oxygen 96.1%Temp 7.2 °CpH 7.93Ammonia 0.023 mg/l |
| Downstream of Tetford sewage treatment works | River Lymn | 10 km | Last sampled 13 Mar 2023, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Lymn Partney | River Lymn | 16 km | 10 Sep 2026 · 28 days ago | Oxygen 96.5%Temp 14 °CpH 8.05Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Steeping River Mill Bridge | Steeping River | 9.0 km | Last sampled 13 Mar 2023, before the imported period | |
| Steeping at Little Steeping | Steeping River | 6.5 km | 14 Sep 2026 · 24 days ago | Oxygen 83.4%Temp 17.1 °CpH 7.87Ammonia 0.046 mg/l |
| Steeping River Crows Bridge | Steeping River | 1.7 km | 10 Sep 2026 · 28 days ago | Oxygen 47.3%Temp 16.2 °CpH 7.44Ammonia 0.27 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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