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Rother Washlands water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across South Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.

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0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Rother Valley Lake—0.03 m 25m agoNormal—

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.

Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Rother Washlands above one of its gauges, from the source down. The river map knows where gauges are, not every stream, so a tributary without a gauge is not listed here.

1 gauged tributary, 16 gauges

River Rother

Joins the Rother Washlands above Rother Valley Lake, its highest gauge, no more than 730 m by river above Rother Valley Lake.

Chesterfield Avenue Washlandsstructure0.14 m 25m agoNormal
2.1 km by river
Chesterfield St Augustines0.21 m 25m agoNormal
1.3 km by river
Hady Hill0.52 m 25m agoNormal
890 m by river
Chesterfield Tapton Bridge0.05 m 25m agoNormal
3.6 km by river
Whittington0.22 m 25m agoLow
14.0 km by river
Killamarsh-0.04 m 25m agoLow

Its water passes every gauge on the Rother Washlands, from Rother Valley Lake down.

Gauged streams joining the Rother

Where the Rother Washlands goes

Below Rother Valley Lake, its water next reaches Meadowgate Regulator, a gauge on River Rother, 1.3 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.

Storm overflows upstream

75 storm overflows are traced upstream of Rother Valley Lake, the Rother Washlands’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Rother Washlands itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 71 not discharging
  • 4 offline or silent: 2 monitor offline, 1 status unknown, 1 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Rother Valley Lake: 1,799 spills over 10,311 hours in total, across all 75.

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 Rother Washlands includes the smaller streams that join it there. Every overflow traced is listed here, each stretch in full. Back to the short lists →

River Rother, above Chesterfield Avenue Washlandsjoins the Rother Washlands above Rother Valley Lake6 overflows
  • Danesmoor WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 7.4 km by river above Chesterfield Avenue Washlands · 2025: 85 spills, 1,004 h
  • Danesmoor WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 7.4 km by river above Chesterfield Avenue Washlands · 2025: 48 spills, 176 h
  • Hall Terrace Clay Cross & High Haze Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 5.8 km by river above Chesterfield Avenue Washlands · 2025: 20 spills, 16 h
  • Hall Terrace Clay Cross & High Haze Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 5.8 km by river above Chesterfield Avenue Washlands · 2025: 42 spills, 98 h
  • Tupton WwTW Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into Redleadmill Brook · 2.7 km by river above Chesterfield Avenue Washlands · 2025: 35 spills, 224 h
  • Avenue Farm CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.5 km by river above Chesterfield Avenue Washlands · 2025: 66 spills, 330 h
River Whitting, above Dronfieldjoins the Rother1 overflow
  • Dronfield Yard CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 190 m by river above Dronfield · 2025: 14 spills, 14 h
River Whitting, above Dronfield Damjoins the Rother2 overflows
  • Greenhill Park Pavillion CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of River Drone · 2.2 km by river above Dronfield Dam · 2025: 3 spills, 28 h
  • Greenhill Park CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of River Drone · 1.5 km by river above Dronfield Dam · 2025: 3 spills, 30 h
River Rother, above Chesterfield St Augustinesjoins the Rother Washlands above Rother Valley Lake4 overflows
  • Storforth Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 910 m by river above Chesterfield St Augustines · 2025: 25 spills, 71 h
  • Lincoln Street CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 380 m by river above Chesterfield St Augustines · 2025: 7 spills, 4.8 h
  • Derby Road 242 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother Via Sws · 300 m by river above Chesterfield St Augustines · 2025: 13 spills, 5.3 h · reaches the river through a sewer, so where it enters is approximate
  • Derby Road Garage CSO Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 110 m by river above Chesterfield St Augustines · 2025: 10 spills, 49 h
River Rother, above Hady Hilljoins the Rother Washlands above Rother Valley Lake11 overflows
  • Heathcote Drive CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Spital Brook · 1.8 km by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 14 spills, 85 h
  • St Augustines Avenue CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.3 km by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 22 spills, 63 h
  • St Augustines Drive CSO Status unknown
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.3 km by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 19 spills, 24 h
  • Main Road Farm CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.3 km by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 43 spills, 185 h
  • Hawthorne Street SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.1 km by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 5 spills, 41 h
  • Derby Road North CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 990 m by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 10 spills, 43 h
  • Hipper Street South CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 880 m by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Valley Crescent CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Spital Brook Culverted · 610 m by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 30 spills, 33 h
  • Hasland Horns Bridge CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 420 m by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 22 spills, 89 h
  • Chesterfield Spital Lane Sw Pmpg St Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 260 m by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 14 spills, 6.8 h
  • Clayton Street South CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 160 m by river above Hady Hill · 2025: 5 spills, 59 h
River Rother, above Chesterfield Tapton Bridgejoins the Rother Washlands above Rother Valley Lake1 overflow
  • Crow Lane Works CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 230 m by river above Chesterfield Tapton Bridge · 2025: 62 spills, 541 h
River Rother, above Whittingtonjoins the Rother Washlands above Rother Valley Lake10 overflows
  • Brimmington Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 3.7 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 2 spills, 0.5 h
  • Brimington Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 3.2 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Pottery Lane West CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.9 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 15 spills, 8.5 h
  • Pottery Lane East CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.8 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 39 spills, 123 h
  • Sheffield Road Fire Station CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 1.7 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • North Brimington Works CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Whitting · 1.4 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 2 spills, 0.5 h
  • Brimington Road North CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Whitting · 1.1 km by river above Whittington · 2025: 60 spills, 324 h
  • Station Road Brimington CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 650 m by river above Whittington · 2025: 11 spills, 23 h
  • Old Whittington (Chesterfield) STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 200 m by river above Whittington · 2025: 60 spills, 764 h
  • Old Whittington (Chesterfield) STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 150 m by river above Whittington · 2025: 29 spills, 494 h
River Rother, above Killamarshjoins the Rother Washlands above Rother Valley Lake9 overflows
  • Albert Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 12.8 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Station Rd Staveley CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trough Brook Trib Of R.rother · 11.7 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 5 spills, 28 h
  • Works Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 11.4 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 11 spills, 36 h
  • Chesterfield Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 9.9 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Mill Green CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 9.7 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 14 spills, 35 h
  • Staveley WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 6.4 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 90 spills, 1,090 h
  • Renishaw STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Smithy Brook · 4.4 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 60 spills, 679 h
  • Rotherside Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Moss · 2.3 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 1 spill, 0.3 h
  • Eckington CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Moss · 2.0 km by river above Killamarsh · 2025: 22 spills, 21 h
Calow Brook, above Chesterfield Calow Lanejoins the Rother1 overflow
  • Temple Normanton STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Muster Brook · 3.4 km by river above Chesterfield Calow Lane · 2025: 44 spills, 284 h
River Hipper, above Chesterfieldjoins the Rother5 overflows
  • Bulls Head CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 3.6 km by river above Chesterfield · 2025: 25 spills, 62 h
  • Hipper Hall CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of The River Hipper · 3.2 km by river above Chesterfield · 2025: 20 spills, 40 h
  • Yws Unknown Sites Default Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 2.7 km by river above Chesterfield · 2025: 25 spills, 70 h
  • SSO At Oakfield Avenue Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 780 m by river above Chesterfield · 2025: 53 spills, 225 h
  • Chatsworth Road N471 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 190 m by river above Chesterfield · 2025: 30 spills, 67 h
River Hipper, above Chesterfield Park Road Bridgejoins the Rother9 overflows
  • Bobbinmill Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 1.8 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 57 spills, 339 h
  • Old Road Chesterfield CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 1.5 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Tbc When Permit Issued Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tbc When Permit Issued · 1.3 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 18 spills, 15 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • SSO At Junction Of Ashgate Road And Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Holme Brook · 1.3 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 45 spills, 104 h
  • Church View CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 1.3 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 7 spills, 3.0 h
  • Chatsworth Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 1.0 km by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 17 spills, 23 h
  • Spring Bank Road CSO No live feed
    Yorkshire Water · into Holme Brook · 770 m by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 4 spills, 1.0 h
  • Dock Walk CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Hipper · 570 m by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 13 spills, 49 h
  • West Bars Roundabout CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Holme Brook / River Hipper · 460 m by river above Chesterfield Park Road Bridge · 2025: 26 spills, 62 h
River Whitting, above Sheepbridgejoins the Rother9 overflows
  • Dronfield Lea Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 6.3 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Dronfield Mill Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 5.6 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 7 spills, 9.5 h
  • Dronfield Tip CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 5.2 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 9 spills, 23 h
  • Dronfield WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 4.6 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 42 spills, 287 h
  • Barlow WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Barlow Brook · 4.5 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 43 spills, 184 h
  • Crow Lane Memorial CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 3.4 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 4 spills, 1.0 h
  • Siscar Cottage CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 3.1 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Hardhurst Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 2.1 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 1 spill, 0.3 h
  • Unstone SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Drone · 1.9 km by river above Sheepbridge · 2025: 27 spills, 185 h
River Doe Lea, above Staveleyjoins the Rother5 overflows
  • Stockley WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 7.9 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 45 spills, 449 h
  • Carr Vale No 2 SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 6.0 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 25 spills, 71 h
  • Bolsover WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 5.5 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 76 spills, 540 h
  • Bolsover WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Doe Lea · 5.5 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 45 spills, 228 h
  • Shuttlewood CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Hawke Brook · 4.8 km by river above Staveley · 2025: 20 spills, 58 h
The Moss, above Eckington Rotherham Roadjoins the Rother2 overflows
  • Bridge Inn Ford CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into The Moss · 3.8 km by river above Eckington Rotherham Road · 2025: 27 spills, 87 h
  • Market Street Cs0 Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into The Moss · 210 m by river above Eckington Rotherham Road · 2025: 6 spills, 1.8 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

Within 3 km of one of the Rother Washlands’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.

  • Sheffield Road Kilmarsh CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Rother · 510 m from Rother Valley Lake in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 41 spills, 230 h
  • Norwood SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into County Dyke To River Rother · 1.2 km from Rother Valley Lake in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 21 spills, 63 h
  • The Mill No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trib Of Short Brook · 1.7 km from Rother Valley Lake in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 31 spills, 72 h
  • Armstead Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Ochre Dyke · 1.9 km from Rother Valley Lake in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Westthorpe No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Park Brook · 2.2 km from Rother Valley Lake in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 10 spills, 13 h
  • Queens Road Beighton CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Ochre Beck · 2.3 km from Rother Valley Lake in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h

1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below the Rother Washlands’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.

Water samples

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.

63 sampling points on the Rother Washlands and the streams that join it above Rother Valley Lake, and below it. 9 have a sample from the last 12 months; 17 have any sample banked.

Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Rother Washlands and its streams:

Where, from the source downSampling pointsNewest sample
River Rother and its streamsjoins the Rother Washlands above Rother Valley Lake58 points16 sampled21 Sep 2026
Above Rother Valley Lake2 points0 samplednone banked
Below the lowest gauge3 points1 sampled8 Dec 2023

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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