Cholwell Brook Adit
EA name: CHOLWELL BROOK ADIT (also listed as “CHOLWELL BROOK ADIT (WHEAL BETSY)”)
Environment Agency sampling point SW-81232718 · 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
- 12 Nov 2025, 11:2011 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
- 5 since 21 Aug 2024 Imported periods: 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026. Samples outside them are not shown here.
- Latest sample
- Minewater Planned investigation (local monitoring)
- Where
- National Grid 250996, 80574As published, to the nearest 1 m. Open in a map
- River, by its own name
- Cholwell Brook
- River, by the map
- Cholwell BrookPlaced on the river its name gives, 35 m from the line.
- Next gauge downstream
- Tavistock On the River Tavy · 8.2 km along the river
- Why it was sampled
- Planned investigation (local monitoring) (5 samples)
Everything measured here
51 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 51 rows
| Determinand | Material | Results | First – last | Latest result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxygen, Dissolved, % Saturation 9901 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 61.7% 12 Nov 2025 |
| Oxygen, Dissolved as O2 9924 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 6.66 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Temperature of Water 0076 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 11.8 °C 12 Nov 2025 |
| pH 0061 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 5.44 12 Nov 2025 |
| Ammoniacal Nitrogen as N 0111 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | below 0.03 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Conductivity at 25 C 0077 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 103 µS/cm 12 Nov 2025 |
| Alkalinity to pH 4.5 as CaCO3 0162 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 13 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Aluminium 6057 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 210 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Aluminium, Dissolved 6037 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 33 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Arsenic 6046 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 350 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Arsenic, Dissolved 6045 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 16 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Barium 6062 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | below 10 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Barium, Dissolved 9446 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | below 10 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Boron 6059 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | below 100 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Boron, Dissolved 9447 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | below 100 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Cadmium 0108 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 2.2 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Cadmium, Dissolved 0106 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 2.1 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Calcium 0241 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 4.7 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Calcium, Dissolved 0239 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 4.6 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Chloride 0172 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 12 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Chromium 3164 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | below 0.5 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Chromium, Dissolved 3409 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | below 0.5 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Copper 6452 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 39 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Copper, Dissolved 6450 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 17 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Hardness, Total as CaCO3 0158 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 23 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Ionic Balance 7044 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | -8.67% 12 Nov 2025 |
| Iron 6051 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 21000 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Iron, Dissolved 6460 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 1400 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Lead 0050 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 1400 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Lead, Dissolved 0052 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 68 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Lithium 6064 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | below 100 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Lithium, Dissolved 4201 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | below 100 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Magnesium 0237 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 2.7 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Magnesium, Dissolved 0235 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 2.8 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Manganese 6050 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 310 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Manganese, Dissolved 6458 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 300 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Nickel 6462 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 15 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Nickel, Dissolved 3410 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 15 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Nitrite as N 0118 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | below 0.004 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Nitrogen, Total Oxidised as N 0116 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 1.1 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Potassium 0211 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 1.2 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Potassium, Dissolved 0209 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 1.3 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Redox Potential 6988 | Minewater | 4 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 175.7 millivolt 12 Nov 2025 |
| Silica, reactive as SiO2 0182 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 9.1 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Sodium 0207 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 7.5 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Sodium, Dissolved 0205 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 9.5 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Strontium 6063 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | below 20 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Strontium, Filtered 6693 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | below 20 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Sulphate as SO4 0183 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 14 mg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Zinc 6455 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 330 µg/l 12 Nov 2025 |
| Zinc, Dissolved 3408 | Minewater | 5 | Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 | 320 µg/l 12 Nov 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.
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