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Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across West Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleckheaton Thornton Street | 0.06 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 5.7 km by river | ||||
| Northorpe | 0.04 m 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 Spen Beck 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.
Joins Spen Beck above Cleckheaton Thornton Street, its highest gauge, no more than 960 m by river above Cleckheaton Thornton Street.
| Cleckheaton Hightown Road | 0.01 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on Spen Beck, from Cleckheaton Thornton Street down.
Joins Spen Beck between Cleckheaton Thornton Street and Northorpe, no more than 3.8 km by river above Northorpe.
| Liversedge Halifax Road | 0.02 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Northorpe and every gauge below it on Spen Beck. It does not pass Cleckheaton Thornton Street or the gauges above it.
Below Northorpe, its water next reaches Dewsbury, a gauge on River Calder, 3.4 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.
13 storm overflows are traced upstream of Northorpe, Spen Beck’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Spen Beck itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Northorpe: 281 spills over 1,069 hours in total, across all 13.
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 Spen Beck includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of Spen Beck’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
12 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Spen Beck’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 Spen Beck and the streams that join it above Northorpe, and below it. 4 have a sample from the last 12 months; 4 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toad Holes Beck below Dean House Farm | Toad Holes Beck | 4.9 km | Last sampled 3 Mar 2023, before the imported period | |
| Low Moor Beck at South Street | Low Moor Beck | 4.5 km | 24 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago | |
| High Royds Beck upstream of Low Moor Beck confluence | High Royds Beck | 4.1 km | Last sampled 18 Jun 2018, before the imported period | |
| Low Moor Beck upstream of High Royds Beck confluence | Low Moor Beck | 4.1 km | Last sampled 6 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Hunsworth Beck upstream of North Bierley WPC Works | Hunsworth Beck | 4.1 km | Last sampled 6 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Hunsworth Beck below Sugden Beck confluence | Hunsworth Beck | 2.4 km | 17 Sep 2026 · 21 days ago | Oxygen 82.9%Temp 12.8 °CpH 7.33Ammonia 0.22 mg/l |
| Syke Beck at Hightown Road - Cleckheaton | Syke Beck | 0.9 km | Last sampled 19 Mar 2005, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spen Beck at Station Lane Heckmondwike | Spen River | 2.4 km | Last sampled 5 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Spen Beck at Ponderosa | Spen River | 1.9 km | 4 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago | Oxygen 92.8%Temp 16.6 °CpH 8.25Ammonia 0.051 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spen Beck at A644 Road Bridge | Spen River | 1.0 km | 24 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago | Oxygen 61.5% Jun 2026Temp 19.6 °C Jun 2026pH 7.65 Jun 2026Ammonia 1.5 mg/l Jun 2026 |
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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