Swart Beck downstream of Greenside Mine

EA name: SWART BECK D/S GREENSIDE MINE
Environment Agency sampling point NW-88023006 · 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
27 Mar 2024, 11:472.5 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
14 since 9 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 336536, 517415As published, to the nearest 1 m. Open in a map
River, by its own name
Swart Beck
River, by the map
Swart BeckPlaced on the river its name gives, 1 m from the line.
Next gauge downstream
Glenridding Village On the Glenridding Beck · 2.4 km along the river
Why it was sampled
Monitoring (national agency policy) (14 samples)

Main measurements, river water

pH

code 0061

7.85

Sampled 27 Mar 2024, 2.5 years ago · 14 results banked

7.27.47.67.88202420252026no sample published after Mar 20249 Oct 2023, 10:18: 7.7231 Oct 2023, 11:15: 7.49 Nov 2023, 11:46: 7.2817 Nov 2023, 13:29: 7.4627 Nov 2023, 10:40: 7.548 Dec 2023, 09:59: 7.4519 Dec 2023, 10:00: 7.4729 Dec 2023, 09:52: 7.6112 Jan 2024, 09:49: 7.6726 Jan 2024, 10:43: 7.417 Feb 2024, 09:56: 7.8427 Feb 2024, 10:55: 7.225 Mar 2024, 11:13: 7.7727 Mar 2024, 11:47: 7.85
Every result (14)
SampledResult as publishedReads as
27 Mar 2024, 11:477.85 7.85
5 Mar 2024, 11:137.77 7.77
27 Feb 2024, 10:557.22 7.22
7 Feb 2024, 09:567.84 7.84
26 Jan 2024, 10:437.41 7.41
12 Jan 2024, 09:497.67 7.67
29 Dec 2023, 09:527.61 7.61
19 Dec 2023, 10:007.47 7.47
8 Dec 2023, 09:597.45 7.45
27 Nov 2023, 10:407.54 7.54
17 Nov 2023, 13:297.46 7.46
9 Nov 2023, 11:467.28 7.28
31 Oct 2023, 11:157.4 7.4
9 Oct 2023, 10:187.72 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 14 Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 7.85 27 Mar 2024
Aluminium, Dissolved 6037 River water 14 Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 47 µg/l 27 Mar 2024
Cadmium, Dissolved 0106 River water 14 Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 0.95 µg/l 27 Mar 2024
Calcium, Dissolved 0239 River water 14 Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 5 mg/l 27 Mar 2024
Carbon, Organic, Dissolved as C :- {DOC} 0301 River water 14 Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 2.1 mg/l 27 Mar 2024
Chromium, Dissolved 3409 River water 14 Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 below 0.5 µg/l 27 Mar 2024
Copper, Dissolved 6450 River water 14 Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 1.6 µg/l 27 Mar 2024
Hardness, Total as CaCO3 0158 River water 14 Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 17 mg/l 27 Mar 2024
Lead, Dissolved 0052 River water 14 Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 67 µg/l 27 Mar 2024
Magnesium, Dissolved 0235 River water 14 Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 1.1 mg/l 27 Mar 2024
Nickel, Dissolved 3410 River water 14 Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 below 1 µg/l 27 Mar 2024
Zinc, Dissolved 3408 River water 14 Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 84 µg/l 27 Mar 2024

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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