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St Neot River water levels

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

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Craigshill WoodSt Neot0.39 m 27m 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.

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Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the St Neot River 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.

No gauged tributary joins the St Neot River above Craigshill Wood on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where the St Neot River goes

Below Craigshill Wood, its water next reaches Wainsford, a gauge on River Fowey, 5.0 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

2 storm overflows are traced upstream of Craigshill Wood, the St Neot River’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the St Neot River itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

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

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Craigshill Wood: 249 spills over 3,520 hours in total, across all 2.

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 St Neot River includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Craigshill Wood, the St Neot River’s highest gauge2 overflows
  • Chapel Car Park Pscso/EO Not discharging
    South West Water · into River Loveny (S) · 2.2 km by river above Craigshill Wood · 2025: 82 spills, 1,489 h
  • St Neot STW Not discharging
    South West Water · into St Neot River · 1.6 km by river above Craigshill Wood · 2025: 167 spills, 2,031 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • East Taphouse WwTW Not discharging
    South West Water · into Tributary Of River Fowey · 2.6 km from Craigshill Wood in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 18 spills, 25 h

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: © South West 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.

5 sampling points on the St Neot River and the streams that join it above Craigshill Wood, and below it. 1 has a sample from the last 12 months; 1 has any sample banked. Listed from the source down, grouped by the next gauge each one's water reaches.

Above Craigshill Wood St Neot River 4 points, 1 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Colliford Lake Dam SurfaceSt Neot River7.1 kmLast sampled 10 Mar 2020, before the imported period
St Neot River at Colliford BridgeSt Neot River6.7 kmLast sampled 8 Mar 2022, before the imported period
St Neot River at TrevennaSt Neot River4.1 kmLast sampled 7 Jun 2013, before the imported period
St Neot River at St Neot BridgeSt Neot River2.2 km14 Sep 2026 · 24 days agoOxygen 100.1%Temp 17.9 °CpH 6.82Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
Below Craigshill Wood 1 point, 0 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Below the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
St Neot River at Two Waters FootSt Neot River1.1 kmLast sampled 8 Mar 2022, before the imported period

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.