Ribble Link Canal at Lea Road
EA name: RIBBLE LINK CANAL AT LEA ROAD
Environment Agency sampling point NW-88003575 · 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
- 5 Mar 2025, 12:5719 months 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
- 18 since 4 Oct 2023 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)
- Where
- National Grid 349896, 430834As published, to the nearest 1 m. Open in a map
- River, by its own name
- Ribble Link Canal
- River, by the map
- Savick BrookPlaced by position alone, on a line whose map name differs from its own, 7 m from the line.
- Next gauge downstream
- None tracedIts water reaches the sea without passing a gauge.
- Why it was sampled
- Planned investigation (local monitoring) (18 samples)
Main measurements, river water
E. coli
confirmed, membrane filtration · code 2348 · per 100 ml
2900 per 100 ml
Sampled 5 Mar 2025, 19 months ago · 18 results banked
Every result (18)
| Sampled | Result as published | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Mar 2025, 12:57 | 2900 | 2900 per 100 ml |
| 11 Feb 2025, 13:16 | 4200 | 4200 per 100 ml |
| 14 Jan 2025, 11:41 | 7000 | 7000 per 100 ml |
| 9 Dec 2024, 10:10 | 1800 | 1800 per 100 ml |
| 8 Nov 2024, 10:56 | 840 | 840 per 100 ml |
| 3 Oct 2024, 10:15 | 2400 | 2400 per 100 ml |
| 9 Sep 2024, 11:21 | 48000 | 48000 per 100 ml |
| 6 Aug 2024, 10:20 | 52000 | 52000 per 100 ml |
| 15 Jul 2024, 09:20 | 700 | 700 per 100 ml |
| 14 Jun 2024, 10:16 | 860 | 860 per 100 ml |
| 7 May 2024, 12:19 | 1000 | 1000 per 100 ml |
| 23 Apr 2024, 12:18 | 1900 | 1900 per 100 ml |
| 7 Mar 2024, 13:01 | 2000 | 2000 per 100 ml |
| 8 Feb 2024, 09:19 | 3000 | 3000 per 100 ml |
| 18 Jan 2024, 10:12 | 20000 | 20000 per 100 ml |
| 1 Dec 2023, 10:15 | 5200 | 5200 per 100 ml |
| 3 Nov 2023, 09:50 | 4800 | 4800 per 100 ml |
| 4 Oct 2023, 12:04 | 5800 | 5800 per 100 ml |
Everything measured here
5 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 5 rows
| Determinand | Material | Results | First – last | Latest result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Escherichia coli : Confirmed : MF 2348 | River water | 18 | Oct 2023 – Mar 2025 | 2900 per 100 ml 5 Mar 2025 |
| Enterococci: Intestinal: Confirmed: MF 3723 | River water | 18 | Oct 2023 – Mar 2025 | 97 colony forming units / 100ml 5 Mar 2025 |
| Enterococci: Intestinal: Presumptive: MF 3722 | River water | 18 | Oct 2023 – Mar 2025 | 110 colony forming units / 100ml 5 Mar 2025 |
| MST Filtration 4926 | River water | 18 | Oct 2023 – Mar 2025 | DNA Stored 5 Mar 2025 |
| Volume of Sample Filtered 4865 | River water | 18 | Oct 2023 – Mar 2025 | 390 millilitre 5 Mar 2025 |
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.