Farnley Beck
Joins Wortley Beck above Wortley, its highest gauge, no more than 4.0 km by river above Wortley.
| Pudsey | 0.03 m 46m ago | Low |
Its water passes every gauge on Wortley Beck, from Wortley down.
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Live levels from 1 monitoring station across West Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Wortley | 0.08 m 46m 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 Wortley Beck 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 Wortley Beck above Wortley, its highest gauge, no more than 4.0 km by river above Wortley.
| Pudsey | 0.03 m 46m ago | Low |
Its water passes every gauge on Wortley Beck, from Wortley down.
Below Wortley, its water next reaches Leeds Crown Point, a gauge on River Aire, 4.2 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.
6 storm overflows are traced upstream of Wortley, Wortley Beck’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Wortley Beck itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Wortley: 191 spills over 824 hours in total, across all 6.
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 Wortley Beck includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of Wortley Beck’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
22 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Wortley Beck’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: © Yorkshire 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.
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.
7 sampling points on the Wortley Beck and the streams that join it above Wortley, and below it. 2 have a sample from the last 12 months; 2 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyersal Beck at Tyersal Lane | Tyersal Beck | 7.7 km | 12 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 111.9%Temp 12 °CpH 8.52Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Tong Beck Abv Pudsey Beck confluence | Tong Beck | 3.2 km | Last sampled 7 Feb 2017, before the imported period | |
| Pudsey Beck above confluence | Pudsey Beck | 3.2 km | Last sampled 2 Oct 2000, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farnley Beck at Wood Lane - Pudsey | Farnley Beck | 4.0 km | Last sampled 26 Apr 2012, before the imported period | |
| Farnley Beck at Balancing Reservoir | Farnley Beck | 2.8 km | Last sampled 7 Feb 2023, before the imported period | |
| Wortley Beck Lower Wortley | Wortley Beck | 1.3 km | 9 Sep 2026 · 29 days ago | Oxygen 71.4%Temp 14.1 °CpH 7.84Ammonia 1.2 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wortley Beck at the Boulevard | Wortley Beck | 0.5 km | Last sampled 3 Nov 2016, 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.
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