Seaham Dene

EA name: SEAHAM DENE
Environment Agency sampling point NE-43500807 · Freshwater - rivers · listed as open (“open” does not mean it is sampled now)

These are samples taken on a date, not live readings of the river. Results reach the Environment Agency's archive days to months after the sample is taken, so the newest here may be weeks or months old. FloodRadar does not grade them.

Where and when

Last sampled
22 Sep 2026, 11:409 days ago · time as the Environment Agency records it (UK clock time; the source gives no time zone)
Samples banked
39 since 9 May 2025 Imported periods: 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026. Samples outside them are not shown here.
Latest sample
River / running surface water Planned investigation (local monitoring) · results completed 25 Sep 2026
Where
National Grid 442512, 550511As published, to the nearest 1 m. Open in a map
River, by its own name
Its name does not give one
River, by the map
Seaton BurnPlaced by position alone, on a line whose map name differs from its own, 26 m from the line.
Next gauge downstream
None tracedThe map stops before any gauge.
Why it was sampled
Planned investigation (local monitoring) (39 samples)

Results here were completed a median of 2 days after the sample was taken (2 to 5 days, 24 samples). 36 visits found no water to sample (recorded as “No flow”).

Main measurements, river water

E. coli

confirmed, membrane filtration · code 2348 · per 100 ml

640 per 100 ml

Sampled 15 May 2026, 5 months ago · 3 results banked

0250005000075000100000per 100 ml20242025202629 May 2025, 10:20: 21000 per 100 ml15 Sep 2025, 10:30: above 100000 per 100 ml (the most the test can count)15 May 2026, 11:25: 640 per 100 ml
Every result (3)
SampledResult as publishedReads as
15 May 2026, 11:25640 640 per 100 ml
15 Sep 2025, 10:30>100000 above 100000 per 100 ml (the most the test can count)
29 May 2025, 10:2021000 21000 per 100 ml

Everything measured here

6 determinands, each kept by its code, unit and sample material: results in different units or on different materials are never mixed. A “below” result is under the laboratory's detection limit, not zero.

Show all 6 rows
DeterminandMaterialResults First – lastLatest result
Escherichia coli : Confirmed : MF 2348 River water 3 May 2025 – May 2026 640 per 100 ml 15 May 2026
Enterococci: Intestinal: Confirmed: MF 3723 River water 3 May 2025 – May 2026 190 colony forming units / 100ml 15 May 2026
Enterococci: Intestinal: Presumptive: MF 3722 River water 3 May 2025 – May 2026 210 colony forming units / 100ml 15 May 2026
MST Filtration 4926 River water 3 May 2025 – May 2026 DNA Stored 15 May 2026
No flow /No sample 7668 River water 36 May 2025 – Sep 2026 No flow/discharge at sampling point 22 Sep 2026
Volume of Sample Filtered 4865 River water 3 May 2025 – May 2026 410 millilitre 15 May 2026

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.