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Vyrnwy (Efyrnwy) water levels

3 gauges from Vyrnwy Weir River Station to Meifod River Station. None of the 2 that can be compared with a typical high is above it. Gauges in Powys; levels are checked every 15 minutes.

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Vyrnwy Weir River Stationstructure—0.26 m 18m agoWithin its typical range—
Pont Robert River Station 18.6 km by river—1.31 m 33m agoWithin its typical range—
Meifod River Station 7.1 km by riverMeifod1.39 m 33m agoWithin its typical range▽

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 Vyrnwy (Efyrnwy) above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.

1 gauged tributary, 1 gauge

Where the Vyrnwy (Efyrnwy) goes

Below Meifod River Station, its water next reaches Llanymynech River Station, 21.4 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.

Streams without a gauge

Named streams on the river map that flow into the Vyrnwy (Efyrnwy) and have no gauge of their own. Each has a page with what is known about it: the next gauge downstream, and any storm overflows or water-sampling points placed on it.

Storm overflows upstream

4 storm overflows are traced upstream of Meifod River Station, the Vyrnwy (Efyrnwy)’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Vyrnwy (Efyrnwy) itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

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

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Meifod River Station: 132 spills over 1,868 hours in total, across all 4.

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 Vyrnwy (Efyrnwy) includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Between Vyrnwy Weir River Station and Pont Robert River Station1 overflow
  • Llanwddyn Wastewater Treatment Works No live feed
    Hafren Dyfrdwy · 18.4 km by river above Pont Robert River Station · 2025: 90 spills, 1,736 h · placed on the river by its position alone
Between Pont Robert River Station and Meifod River Station3 overflows

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Meifod Wastewater Treatment Works No live feed
    Hafren Dyfrdwy · 260 m from Meifod River Station in a straight line · several watercourses close by, nothing to choose between them · 2025: 23 spills, 380 h
  • Llanwddyn - Abertridwr (PS) No live feed
    Hafren Dyfrdwy · 1.2 km from Vyrnwy Weir River Station in a straight line · several watercourses close by, nothing to choose between them · 2025: 32 spills, 576 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: © Hafren Dyfrdwy storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual figures for Wales: Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water’s return to Natural Resources Wales, as compiled by The Rivers Trust, Open Government Licence.