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Live levels from 7 monitoring stations across Norfolk, Suffolk, updated every 15 minutes.
Matched by name — a warning area can cover a different river sharing this name. All warnings →
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diss | 0.26 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 6.8 km by river | ||||
| Billingford | 0.12 m 1h ago | Low | ||
| 8.7 km by river | ||||
| Needham | 0.23 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 37.1 km by river | ||||
| Beccles Quay | 0.68 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 11.3 km by river | ||||
| Burgh St Petertidal | 0.69 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 8.8 km by river | ||||
| Haddiscoe | 0.51 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||||
| Oulton Broadtidal | 0.62 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
Also on the Waveney by the river map, but filed under another river name: ELLINGHAM MILL SLUICE and Burgh Castle.
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 Waveney 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 Waveney above Burgh Castle, no more than 12.6 km by river above Burgh Castle.
| Cantley | 0.27 mAOD 8h ago | Normal |
| 6.2 km by river | ||
| Reedham | 1.11 mASD 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Burgh Castle.
14 more gauges on streams further up.
Below Oulton Broad, its water next reaches Lowestoft, a gauge on Inner Harbour, 2.9 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.
40 storm overflows are traced upstream of Oulton Broad, the Waveney’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Waveney itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Oulton Broad: 301 spills over 1,635 hours in total, across the 39 that have a figure. 1 had no usable monitor data that year.
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 Waveney 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 3 more: show all 6 overflows on this stretch → All above Billingford, nearest first →
and 2 more: show all 5 overflows on this stretch → All above Needham, nearest first →
and 19 more: show all 22 overflows on the Yare and the streams that join it → All above Reedham, nearest first →
and 3 more: show all 6 overflows on this stretch → All above ELLINGHAM MILL SLUICE, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the Waveney’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
14 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: © 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.
115 sampling points on the River Waveney and the streams that join it above Oulton Broad. 56 have a sample from the last 12 months; 62 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Waveney and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| River Yare and its streamsjoins the Waveney above Burgh Castle | 78 points44 sampled | 28 Sep 2026 |
| Above Diss | 12 points1 sampled | 24 Aug 2026 |
| Above Billingford | 4 points3 sampled | 30 Sep 2026 |
| Above Needham | 11 points8 sampled | 17 Sep 2026 |
| Above ELLINGHAM MILL SLUICE | 8 points5 sampled | 10 Sep 2026 |
| Above Haddiscoe | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| Above Beccles Quay | 1 point | 29 Jul 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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