Pow Beck at Whitehaven Harbour

Where and when

Last sampled

13 Feb 2025, 15:4520 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

1 since 13 Feb 2025 Imported periods: 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026. Samples outside them are not shown here.

Latest sample

Estuarine water Unplanned reactive monitoring (pollution incidents)

Where

National Grid 297100, 518200As published, to the nearest 100 m (so up to about 70 m out). Open in a map

River, by its own name

Pow Beck

River, by the map

Pow BeckPlaced on the river its name gives, 26 m from the line.

Next gauge downstream

None tracedThe map stops before any gauge.

Why it was sampled

Unplanned reactive monitoring (pollution incidents) (1 samples)

Everything measured here

17 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.