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
DeterminandMaterialResults First – lastLatest 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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