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East Fen Catchwater Drain

A stream near Keal Cotes, Lincolnshire. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

East Fen Catchwater Drain is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Keal Cotes, Lincolnshire, with about 15 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Stone Bridge Drain, which flows on into Cowbridge Drain, then Hobhole Drain, then the Haven and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Sibsey on Stone Bridge Drain, about 2.9 km along the river below where East Fen Catchwater Drain ends on the map.

Sensor under review, reading not shown

No gauge measures East Fen Catchwater Drain itself. A gauge downstream shows water that has already passed it, mixed with everything else that has joined on the way, so it says nothing exact about this stream.

Storm overflows on East Fen Catchwater Drain

1 storm overflow is placed on this stream on the river map. Each status is the water company’s own monitor.

Stickney STW Not discharging
Anglian Water · into East Fen Catchwater Drain · 2025: 10 spills, 83 h

A status says whether an overflow is discharging now, never how much or why. A monitor that is offline or has not reported is not “not discharging”. Sewage in Britain’s rivers →

Live status: © Anglian Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0.

Water-sampling points on East Fen Catchwater Drain

2 Environment Agency sampling points are placed on this stream. These are dated samples taken by hand, not live readings, and FloodRadar does not grade them.

East Fen Catchwater Drain
Last sampled 20 Mar 2025 · 18 months ago · 18 samples banked
East Fen Catchwater Drain upstream of Stickney sewage treatment works
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026

A sample is taken on a date; it says nothing about the water today. A sample below an overflow does not by itself show where anything in it came from.

Water samples: Environment Agency Water Quality Archive, © Environment Agency and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Little Steeping, Halton Fenside, Toynton St Peter, Toynton Fen Side, Keal Cotes, Stickford, Stickney, Northlands.

On the map

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The blue line is East Fen Catchwater Drain; grey lines are other mapped watercourses. Lines from OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04).

PE22 0UD, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 210 m away) →All rivers with gauges →

What this page can and cannot tell you

Its line, its name and where it flows come from Ordnance Survey’s river map (OS Open Rivers, edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small streams, ditches and culverts. “Flows into” is the map’s word: a channel that is not on the map is not shown here, which does not mean it is not there.
No gauge measures East Fen Catchwater Drain itself, so its own level is not known here.
Storm overflows are listed only where the river map places them on this stream; an overflow it could not place is not counted.
Water samples are England’s only (the Environment Agency’s archive), placed where the map can place their sampling point.
Nothing on this page says whether any place floods. For an address, see its postcode page.

This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta). Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.