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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Derbyshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sheepbridge | 0.05 m 27m ago | Low |
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 Whitting 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 Whitting above Sheepbridge, its highest gauge, no more than 6.5 km by river above Sheepbridge.
| Dronfield Dam | 0.02 m 27m ago | Low |
| 1.2 km by river | ||
| Dronfield | -0.02 m 27m ago | Low |
Its water passes every gauge on the Whitting, from Sheepbridge down.
Below Sheepbridge, its water next reaches Whittington, a gauge on River Rother, 3.2 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.
12 storm overflows are traced upstream of Sheepbridge, the Whitting’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Whitting itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Sheepbridge: 153 spills over 762 hours in total, across all 12.
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 Whitting includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Whitting’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 Whitting’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.
10 sampling points on the River Whitting and the streams that join it above Sheepbridge, and below it. 1 has a sample from the last 12 months; 3 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Drone upstream of Sheffield Road | River Drone | 1.0 km | 3 Jul 2024 · 2.3 years ago | Oxygen 84.5%Temp 12.9 °CpH 7.5Ammonia 0.097 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holmesfield Brook at Lees Wood | unnamed stream | 5.2 km | Last sampled 7 Sep 2004, before the imported period | |
| Barlow Brook at Dobbin Lane Bridge upstream of fish farm | Barlow Brook | 4.9 km | Last sampled 16 Mar 2009, before the imported period | |
| Drone downstream of Dronfield sewage treatment works | River Drone | 4.2 km | Last sampled 14 Feb 2011, before the imported period | |
| Drone at Unstone Green | River Drone | 2.3 km | Last sampled 14 Feb 2011, before the imported period | |
| Barlow Brook upstream of Sheepbridge Industrial Estate | Barlow Brook | 2.0 km | Last sampled 1 Mar 2019, before the imported period | |
| Barlow Brook upstream Sheepbridge Works | Barlow Brook | 1.1 km | Last sampled 31 Aug 2000, before the imported period | |
| Drone downstream of By-Pass at Sheepbridge | River Drone | 0.5 km | 3 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 100.2%Temp 8.1 °CpH 7.6Ammonia 0.097 mg/l |
| Barlow Brook at Sheepbridge Lane | Barlow Brook | 0.5 km | Last sampled 3 Mar 2020, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitting at B6052 Road Bridge | River Whitting | 1.0 km | 3 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago | Oxygen 107.4% Mar 2025Temp 9.3 °C Mar 2025pH 7.66 Mar 2025Ammonia 0.036 mg/l Mar 2025 |
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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