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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Lancashire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Crossens Pumping Stationstructure | 1.56 m 30m 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 Sluice above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.
No gauged tributary joins the Sluice above Crossens Pumping Station on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.
No gauge below Crossens Pumping Station is known on the river map.
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.
2 storm overflows are traced upstream of Crossens Pumping Station, the Sluice’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Sluice itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Crossens Pumping Station: 107 spills over 989 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 Sluice includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Sluice’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
2 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Sluice’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: © United Utilities 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.
9 sampling points on the Sluice and the streams that join it above Crossens Pumping Station. 3 have 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boathouse Sluice at Wood End Farm | Boat House Sluice | 9.5 km | Last sampled 11 Dec 2007, before the imported period | |
| Tarleton Runner upstream of Mere Brow sewage treatment works | Tarleton Runner | 9.3 km | Last sampled 11 Dec 2007, before the imported period | |
| Boathouse Sluice upstream of Martin Mere | Boat House Sluice | 8.8 km | 8 Oct 2025 · 12 months ago | Oxygen 102.7%Temp 15.7 °CpH 7.85Ammonia 0.057 mg/l |
| Boathouse Sluice downstream of Martin Mere | Boat House Sluice | 7.4 km | Last sampled 6 Feb 2019, before the imported period | |
| Boathouse Sluice at Ford Bridge | Boat House Sluice | 7.1 km | Last sampled 11 Sep 2007, before the imported period | |
| Rufford Sluice at Wiggins Lane | The Sluice | 6.8 km | Last sampled 29 May 2018, before the imported period | |
| Tarleton Runner at Long Ditch Bridge | Tarleton Runner | 6.4 km | 5 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 28.1%Temp 12.5 °CpH 7.32Ammonia 1.1 mg/l |
| The Sluice at Sluice Farm | The Sluice | 3.8 km | Last sampled 11 Dec 2007, before the imported period | |
| The Sluice upstream of Crossens PS | The Sluice | 0.8 km | 28 Sep 2026 · 10 days ago | Oxygen 59.4%Temp 14 °CpH 7.05Ammonia 0.097 mg/l |
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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