Pow Beck at St Bees
EA name: POW BECK AT ST BEES
Environment Agency sampling point NW-88005199 · 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
- 15 Sep 2026, 11:2416 days ago · time as the Environment Agency records it (UK clock time; the source gives no time zone)
- Samples banked
- 20 since 24 Jun 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)
- Where
- National Grid 296898, 511898As published, to the nearest 1 m. Open in a map
- River, by its own name
- Pow Beck
- River, by the map
- Pow BeckPlaced on the river its name gives, 21 m from the line.
- Next gauge downstream
- None tracedThe map stops before any gauge.
- Why it was sampled
- Planned investigation (local monitoring) (19 samples)
Unplanned reactive monitoring (pollution incidents) (1 samples)
Main measurements, river water
E. coli
confirmed, membrane filtration · code 2348 · per 100 ml
2100 per 100 ml
Sampled 15 Sep 2026, 16 days ago · 20 results banked
Every result (20)
| Sampled | Result as published | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sep 2026, 11:24 | 2100 | 2100 per 100 ml |
| 10 Sep 2026, 11:48 | 700 | 700 per 100 ml |
| 1 Sep 2026, 13:58 | 4500 | 4500 per 100 ml |
| 25 Aug 2026, 10:56 | 790 | 790 per 100 ml |
| 17 Aug 2026, 13:16 | 1100 | 1100 per 100 ml |
| 10 Aug 2026, 14:12 | 1600 | 1600 per 100 ml |
| 3 Aug 2026, 14:54 | 680 | 680 per 100 ml |
| 29 Jul 2026, 11:13 | 790 | 790 per 100 ml |
| 26 Jul 2026, 14:43 | 3200 | 3200 per 100 ml |
| 20 Jul 2026, 12:49 | 2800 | 2800 per 100 ml |
| 15 Jul 2026, 12:46 | 5900 | 5900 per 100 ml |
| 10 Jul 2026, 11:09 | 2100 | 2100 per 100 ml |
| 2 Jul 2026, 12:21 | 2900 | 2900 per 100 ml |
| 28 Jun 2026, 11:55 | 5500 | 5500 per 100 ml |
| 25 Jun 2026, 12:18 | 1600 | 1600 per 100 ml |
| 12 Jun 2026, 10:48 | 3600 | 3600 per 100 ml |
| 3 Jun 2026, 10:37 | 9900 | 9900 per 100 ml |
| 27 May 2026, 09:43 | 2000 | 2000 per 100 ml |
| 18 May 2026, 11:28 | 500 | 500 per 100 ml |
| 24 Jun 2025, 10:25 | 2300 | 2300 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 | 20 | Jun 2025 – Sep 2026 | 2100 per 100 ml 15 Sep 2026 |
| Enterococci: Intestinal: Confirmed: MF 3723 | River water | 20 | Jun 2025 – Sep 2026 | 1100 colony forming units / 100ml 15 Sep 2026 |
| Enterococci: Intestinal: Presumptive: MF 3722 | River water | 20 | Jun 2025 – Sep 2026 | 1100 colony forming units / 100ml 15 Sep 2026 |
| MST Filtration 4926 | River water | 20 | Jun 2025 – Sep 2026 | DNA Stored 15 Sep 2026 |
| Volume of Sample Filtered 4865 | River water | 20 | Jun 2025 – Sep 2026 | 520 millilitre 15 Sep 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.