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Live levels from 13 monitoring stations across North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kettlewell | 0.49 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 8.1 km by river | ||||
| Netherside Hall | 0.78 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 24.9 km by river | ||||
| Addingham | 0.71 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 3.2 km by river | ||||
| Ilkley | 0.46 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 12.0 km by river | ||||
| Otley | 0.50 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 5.4 km by river | ||||
| Pool Bridge | 0.62 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 7.8 km by river | ||||
| Arthington | 1.01 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 11.7 km by river | ||||
| Collingham | 1.11 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 6.7 km by river | ||||
| Flint Mill | 0.90 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 10.5 km by river | ||||
| Tadcaster | 0.51 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 2.7 km by river | ||||
| Cock Beck Sluices | 5.24 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||||
| Bolton Percy | 5.12 mAOD 1h ago | Low | ||
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||||
| Nun Appleton Fleet Pumping Stationtidalstructure | 3.61 mAOD 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 Wharfe 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 Wharfe between Kettlewell and Netherside Hall, no more than 5.7 km by river above Netherside Hall.
| Skirfare Bridge | 0.38 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Netherside Hall and every gauge below it on the Wharfe. It does not pass Kettlewell or the gauges above it.
Joins the Wharfe between Netherside Hall and Addingham, no more than 21.5 km by river above Addingham.
| Hebden | 0.41 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Addingham and every gauge below it on the Wharfe. It does not pass Netherside Hall or the gauges above it.
Joins the Wharfe above Addingham, no more than 2.1 km by river above Addingham.
| Addingham, Town Beck | 0.08 m 1h ago | Low |
Its water passes Addingham and every gauge below it on the Wharfe.
Joins the Wharfe between Collingham and Flint Mill, no more than 11.3 km by river above Flint Mill.
| Bardsey | 0.16 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Flint Mill and every gauge below it on the Wharfe. It does not pass Collingham or the gauges above it.
Joins the Wharfe between Flint Mill and Tadcaster, no more than 10.5 km by river above Tadcaster.
| Bramham Screens | 0.19 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Tadcaster and every gauge below it on the Wharfe. It does not pass Flint Mill or the gauges above it.
Below Nun Appleton Fleet Pumping Station, its water next reaches Cawood, a gauge on River Ouse, 5.1 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.
67 storm overflows are traced upstream of Nun Appleton Fleet Pumping Station, the Wharfe’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Wharfe itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Nun Appleton Fleet Pumping Station: 2,087 spills over 13,160 hours in total, across all 67.
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 Wharfe 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 Addingham, nearest first →
and 17 more: show all 20 overflows on this stretch → All above Otley, nearest first →
and 5 more: show all 8 overflows on this stretch → All above Flint Mill, nearest first →
and 2 more: show all 5 overflows on this stretch → All above Nun Appleton Fleet Pumping Station, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the Wharfe’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
1 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.
1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below the Wharfe’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: © Yorkshire 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.
97 sampling points on the River Wharfe and the streams that join it above Nun Appleton Fleet Pumping Station. 41 have a sample from the last 12 months; 53 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Wharfe and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above Kettlewell | 8 points6 sampled | 21 Aug 2026 |
| Above Skirfare BridgeRiver Skirfare · joins the Wharfe above Netherside Hall | 7 points5 sampled | 8 Sep 2026 |
| Above Netherside Hall | 3 points0 sampled | none banked |
| Above HebdenHebden Beck · joins the Wharfe above Addingham | 1 point | 18 Mar 2024 |
| Above Addingham | 37 points19 sampled | 11 Sep 2026 |
| Above Ilkley | 2 points1 sampled | 31 Mar 2025 |
| Above Otley | 9 points3 sampled | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Above Pool Bridge | 6 points5 sampled | 8 May 2026 |
| Above Arthington | 3 points1 sampled | 11 May 2026 |
| Above Collingham | 6 points4 sampled | 11 May 2026 |
| Above Flint Mill | 5 points2 sampled | 9 Sep 2026 |
| Above Tadcaster | 3 points2 sampled | 1 Apr 2026 |
| Above Cock Beck Sluices | 1 point | 19 Aug 2026 |
| Above Nun Appleton Fleet Pumping Station | 6 points3 sampled | 4 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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