Bollihope Burn upstream of Howden Burn

EA name: BOLLIHOPE BURN U/S HOWDEN BURN
Environment Agency sampling point NE-44100441 · 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
19 Dec 2023, 12:412.8 years ago · time as the Environment Agency records it (UK clock time; the source gives no time zone). Not sampled since, as far as the archive shows: the Environment Agency was asked up to 30 Sep 2026 and had nothing newer.
Samples banked
3 since 13 Oct 2023 Imported periods: 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026. Samples outside them are not shown here.
Latest sample
River / running surface water Monitoring (national agency policy)
Where
National Grid 400500, 534998As published, to the nearest 1 m. Open in a map
River, by its own name
Bollihope Burn
River, by the map
Bollihope BurnPlaced on the river its name gives, 2 m from the line.
Next gauge downstream
Witton Park On the River Wear · 23 km along the river
Why it was sampled
Monitoring (national agency policy) (3 samples)

Main measurements, river water

pH

code 0061

7.64

Sampled 19 Dec 2023, 2.8 years ago · 3 results banked

7.6257.657.6757.77.725202420252026no sample published after Dec 202313 Oct 2023, 15:34: 7.7229 Nov 2023, 13:36: 7.719 Dec 2023, 12:41: 7.64
Every result (3)
SampledResult as publishedReads as
19 Dec 2023, 12:417.64 7.64
29 Nov 2023, 13:367.7 7.7
13 Oct 2023, 15:347.72 7.72

Everything measured here

12 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 12 rows
DeterminandMaterialResults First – lastLatest result
pH 0061 River water 3 Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 7.64 19 Dec 2023
Aluminium, Dissolved 6037 River water 3 Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 78 µg/l 19 Dec 2023
Cadmium, Dissolved 0106 River water 3 Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 0.024 µg/l 19 Dec 2023
Calcium, Dissolved 0239 River water 3 Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 9.4 mg/l 19 Dec 2023
Carbon, Organic, Dissolved as C :- {DOC} 0301 River water 3 Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 4.9 mg/l 19 Dec 2023
Chromium, Dissolved 3409 River water 3 Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 below 0.5 µg/l 19 Dec 2023
Copper, Dissolved 6450 River water 3 Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 1.5 µg/l 19 Dec 2023
Hardness, Total as CaCO3 0158 River water 3 Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 30.1 mg/l 19 Dec 2023
Lead, Dissolved 0052 River water 3 Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 1.7 µg/l 19 Dec 2023
Magnesium, Dissolved 0235 River water 3 Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 1.6 mg/l 19 Dec 2023
Nickel, Dissolved 3410 River water 3 Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 1.4 µg/l 19 Dec 2023
Zinc, Dissolved 3408 River water 3 Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 6.7 µg/l 19 Dec 2023

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.

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