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Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across Westmorland and Furness, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenridding Steamer Pier | 0.75 m 32m ago | Normal | ||
| 11.7 km by river | ||||
| Pooley Bridge Steamer Pier | 1.48 m 32m 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 Ullswater 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 the Ullswater above Glenridding Steamer Pier, its highest gauge, no more than 700 m by river above Glenridding Steamer Pier.
| Glenridding Village | 0.22 m 32m ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on the Ullswater, from Glenridding Steamer Pier down.
Below Pooley Bridge Steamer Pier, its water next reaches Pooley Bridge, a gauge on River Eamont, 970 m 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.
1 storm overflow is traced upstream of Pooley Bridge Steamer Pier, the Ullswater’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Ullswater itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflow traced upstream of Pooley Bridge Steamer Pier: 82 spills over 144 hours.
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 Ullswater includes the smaller streams that join it there.
3 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Ullswater’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.
16 sampling points on the Ullswater and the streams that join it above Pooley Bridge Steamer Pier. 3 have a sample from the last 12 months; 6 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swart Beck upstream of Dam | Swart Beck | 3.8 km | Last sampled 26 Mar 2010, before the imported period | |
| Swart Beck upstream of Spoil | Swart Beck | 3.4 km | Last sampled 26 Mar 2010, before the imported period | |
| Swart Beck Issue from Spoil | Swart Beck | 3.3 km | Last sampled 26 Mar 2010, before the imported period | |
| Swart Beck below Horse Level Tailings | Swart Beck | 3.1 km | Last sampled 26 Mar 2010, before the imported period | |
| Swart Beck downstream of Greenside Mine | Swart Beck | 2.4 km | 27 Mar 2024 · 2.5 years ago | pH 7.85 |
| Glenridding Beck downstream of Greenside Mine | Glenridding Beck | 2.1 km | Last sampled 16 Apr 2019, before the imported period | |
| Glenridding Beck downstream of Rattlebeck Bridge | Glenridding Beck | 0.8 km | 5 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago | Oxygen 100.7%Temp 7.3 °CpH 7.21Ammonia below 0.002 mg/l |
| Glenridding Beck | Glenridding Beck | 0.7 km | Last sampled 14 Dec 2006, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hayeswater Gill downstream of Hayeswater | Hayeswater Gill | 8.1 km | Last sampled 25 Oct 2021, before the imported period | |
| Kirkstone Beck upstream of Caudale Beck | Kirkstone Beck | 6.9 km | Last sampled 24 May 2023, before the imported period | |
| Pasture Beck above the confluence with Hayeswater Gill | Pasture Beck | 6.8 km | 9 Oct 2023 · 3 years ago | Oxygen 101.6%Temp 14.2 °CpH 7.4Ammonia 0.0036 mg/l |
| Goldrill Beck upstream of Ullswater | Goldrill Beck | 1.4 km | 6 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 111.4%Temp 10.5 °CpH 7.89Ammonia 0.0046 mg/l |
| Glenridding Beck at A592 | Glenridding Beck | 0.6 km | 6 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 106.2%Temp 9.5 °CpH 8.02Ammonia below 0.002 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aira Beck at A592 | Aira Beck | 9.5 km | Last sampled 3 Mar 2023, before the imported period | |
| Fusedale Beck at Howtown Road Bridge | Fusedale Beck | 5.6 km | Last sampled 18 Apr 2017, before the imported period | |
| Tributary of Ullswater at Yacht Club - tributary of Eamont | unnamed stream | 2.4 km | 12 Aug 2026 · 57 days ago | Oxygen 96.1% Jul 2026Temp 13.7 °C Jul 2026pH 7.79 Jul 2026Ammonia 0.0051 mg/l Jul 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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