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Live levels from 4 monitoring stations across Devon, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockhay Bridge | 0.35 m 31m ago | Normal | ||
| 11.2 km by river | ||||
| Dolton | 0.07 m 31m ago | Normal | ||
| 20.4 km by river | ||||
| Torrington | 0.48 m 31m ago | Normal | ||
| 7.0 km by river | ||||
| Weare Giffardtidal | 0.05 m 31m 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 Torridge 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 Torridge above Rockhay Bridge, its highest gauge, no more than 33.5 km by river above Rockhay Bridge.
| Bradworthy | 0.29 m 46m ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on the Torridge, from Rockhay Bridge down.
Joins the Torridge between Rockhay Bridge and Dolton, no more than 15.1 km by river above Dolton.
| Gribbleford Bridge | 0.10 m 31m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Dolton and every gauge below it on the Torridge. It does not pass Rockhay Bridge or the gauges above it.
Joins the Torridge between Rockhay Bridge and Dolton, no more than 13.3 km by river above Dolton.
| Jacobstowe | 0.22 m 31m ago | Low |
Its water passes Dolton and every gauge below it on the Torridge. It does not pass Rockhay Bridge or the gauges above it.
No gauge below Weare Giffard 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.
38 storm overflows are traced upstream of Weare Giffard, the Torridge’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Torridge itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Weare Giffard: 1,823 spills over 13,891 hours in total, across all 38.
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 Torridge 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 2 more: show all 5 overflows on this stretch → All above Rockhay Bridge, nearest first →
and 8 more: show all 11 overflows on this stretch → All above Dolton, nearest first →
and 7 more: show all 10 overflows on this stretch → All above Jacobstowe, nearest first →
and 4 more: show all 7 overflows on this stretch → All above Weare Giffard, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the Torridge’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
5 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.
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: © South West 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.
121 sampling points on the River Torridge and the streams that join it above Weare Giffard. 37 have a sample from the last 12 months; 64 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Torridge and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| River Okement and its streamsjoins the Torridge above Dolton | 30 points8 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| River Lew and its streamsjoins the Torridge above Dolton | 7 points5 sampled | 2 Sep 2026 |
| Above Rockhay Bridge | 35 points25 sampled | 15 Sep 2026 |
| Above Dolton | 16 points15 sampled | 29 Sep 2026 |
| Above Torrington | 25 points8 sampled | 4 Sep 2026 |
| Above Weare Giffard | 8 points3 sampled | 11 Sep 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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