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Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across County Durham, Tyne and Wear, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Team Valley | 0.21 m 42m ago | Normal |
These gauges are filed under the Team, but the river map places them on another watercourse, so they are not in the Team’s order above.
| Tanfieldon Houghwell Burn | 0.19 m 42m ago | Normal | ||
| Its water joins the Team above Team Valley, 15.5 km by river. | ||||
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 Team 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 Team above Team Valley, its highest gauge, no more than 15.5 km by river above Team Valley.
| Tanfield | 0.19 m 42m ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on the Team, from Team Valley down.
No gauge below Team Valley 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.
13 storm overflows are traced upstream of Team Valley, the Team’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Team itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Team Valley: 207 spills over 1,137 hours in total, across all 13.
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 Team includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Team’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 Team’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.
27 sampling points on the River Team and the streams that join it above Team Valley, and below it. 3 have a sample from the last 12 months; 4 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houghwell Burn at Tantobie Road Sed < 63U | Houghwell Burn | 1.3 km | Last sampled 5 Dec 2000, before the imported period | |
| Houghwell Burn at Tantobie Road | Houghwell Burn | 1.3 km | 18 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 94.9%Temp 8.8 °CpH 8.37Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houghwell Burn upstream of Ever Ready Tip Sed < 63U | Houghwell Burn | 15 km | Last sampled 5 Dec 2000, before the imported period | |
| Houghwell Burn upstream of East Tanfield sewage treatment works Sed < 63U | Houghwell Burn | 15 km | Last sampled 3 Oct 2001, before the imported period | |
| Houghwell Burn upstream of E. Tanfield sewage treatment works Outfall | Houghwell Burn | 15 km | Last sampled 15 May 2014, before the imported period | |
| Houghwell Burn downstream of E Tanfield WLS (SW 1) | Houghwell Burn | 15 km | Last sampled 11 Jun 2009, before the imported period | |
| Beamish Burn at Beamish Bridge Sed < 63U | Beamish Burn | 12 km | Last sampled 1 Sep 2014, before the imported period | |
| Beamish Burn at Beamish Bridge | Beamish Burn | 12 km | 3 Jan 2024 · 2.8 years ago | pH 7.73 |
| Beamish Burn just upstream of Beamish Hall sewage treatment works | Beamish Burn | 11 km | Last sampled 8 Dec 2021, before the imported period | |
| Team at High Urpeth Road Bridge Sed Samp | River Team | 7.0 km | Last sampled 5 Dec 2000, before the imported period | |
| Team at High Urpeth Road Bridge | River Team | 7.0 km | Last sampled 9 Jan 2001, before the imported period | |
| Team upstream of Sledgehill WDS Sediment Samp | River Team | 5.3 km | Last sampled 5 Dec 2000, before the imported period | |
| Team upstream of Sledgehill Waste Disposal Site | River Team | 5.0 km | Last sampled 8 Dec 2021, before the imported period | |
| Rowletch Burn at Station Lane | Rowletch Burn | 3.8 km | Last sampled 3 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Rowletch Burn at Station Road Birtley | Rowletch Burn | 3.7 km | Last sampled 15 Nov 2000, before the imported period | |
| Rowletch Burn - North Quarry downstream of IP7 | Rowletch Burn | 3.6 km | Last sampled 24 Jul 2003, before the imported period | |
| Rowletch Burn just downstream of North Quarry WDS | Rowletch Burn | 3.3 km | Last sampled 24 Jul 2003, before the imported period | |
| Team upstream of Durham Chemicals & Rof Joint Outfall | River Team | 2.8 km | Last sampled 25 Apr 2007, before the imported period | |
| Team upstream of Birtley sewage treatment works Outfall | River Team | 2.7 km | Last sampled 30 Dec 2021, before the imported period | |
| Team upstream of Kibblesworth Minewater discharge | River Team | 2.4 km | Last sampled 25 Apr 2007, before the imported period | |
| River Team at Moormill Lane | River Team | 2.1 km | 5 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago | Oxygen 79%Temp 16.7 °CpH 7.4Ammonia 0.035 mg/l |
| Team 200 m downstream of Kibblesworth Minewater | River Team | 2.1 km | Last sampled 8 Dec 2021, before the imported period | |
| Team at Ravensworth Arms Road Bridge Sed < 63U | River Team | 0.8 km | Last sampled 25 May 2005, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team at Western By-Pass Sed < 63U | River Team | 0.1 km | Last sampled 3 Oct 2001, before the imported period | |
| Team at Third Avenue Sediment Sample | River Team | 2.2 km | Last sampled 16 May 2005, before the imported period | |
| Team at Third Avenue Sediment < 63U | River Team | 2.2 km | Last sampled 18 Aug 2014, before the imported period | |
| Team at Third Avenue Bridge | River Team | 2.2 km | 5 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago | Oxygen 89.8%Temp 16.9 °CpH 7.82Ammonia 0.17 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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