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Wootton Brook water levels

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

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0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Wootton ParkRothersthorpe0.16 mASD 23m 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.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins Wootton Brook 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 Wootton Brook above Wootton Park on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where Wootton Brook goes

Below Wootton Park, its water next reaches Duston Mill, a gauge on River Nene, 2.5 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 Wootton Park, Wootton Brook’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Wootton Brook 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 Wootton Park: 23 spills over 230 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 Wootton Brook includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Wootton Park, Wootton Brook’s highest gauge2 overflows
  • Hackleton SPS Not discharging
    Anglian Water · into Wootton Brook · 10.7 km by river above Wootton Park · 2025: 15 spills, 228 h
  • Wootton - Berry Lane CSO Not discharging
    Anglian Water · into Wootton Brook · 4.7 km by river above Wootton Park · 2025: 8 spills, 2.0 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Rothersthorpe PS Not discharging
    Anglian Water · into Trib Of Wotton Brook · 1.3 km from Wootton Park in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 10 spills, 33 h
  • SSO Milton Malsor Not discharging
    Anglian Water · into Milton Brook · 1.8 km from Wootton Park in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 10 spills, 5.5 h
  • Northampton, Blue Lagoon CSO No live feed
    Anglian Water · into Brampton Branch - Lower · 2.1 km from Wootton Park in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 38 spills, 38 h

1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below Wootton Brook’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: © Anglian 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 Wootton Brook and the streams that join it above Wootton Park, and below it. 2 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.

Above Wootton Park Wootton Brook 3 points
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Wootton Brook Hackleton Piddington BridgeWootton Brook11 km7 Sep 2026 · 31 days agoOxygen 50.9% Jun 2026Temp 17 °C Jun 2026pH 7.65 Jun 2026Ammonia 0.16 mg/l Jun 2026
Wootton Brook at Quinton RoadWootton Brook6.5 km4 Dec 2024 · 22 months agoOxygen 91.8%Temp 7.5 °CpH 8.07Ammonia 0.073 mg/l
Wootton Brook A43 Road Bridge Milton MalsorWootton Brook1.7 km11 Mar 2024 · 2.6 years agoOxygen 94.8%Temp 8.2 °CpH 8.09Ammonia 0.12 mg/l
Below Wootton Park 2 points, 1 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Below the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Wootton Brook Rothersthorpe Road BridgeWootton Brook0.6 km2 Sep 2026 · 36 days agoOxygen 66.1%Temp 16.2 °CpH 7.82Ammonia 0.056 mg/l
Wootton Brook downstream of RothersthorpeWootton Brook1.1 kmLast sampled 16 Nov 2012, 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.