England · Environment Agency
Falcon Meadow, River Waveney
Status unknown
Insufficient data to determine swim safety.
Insufficient data to determine swim safety.
Low confidence — key monitoring signals are absent.
Status computed 5 Nov 2026, 16:43 UTC; statuses refresh every 15 minutes.
What we know
- Regulator classification
- Not classified
- Pollution risk forecast
- Not published for this spot
- Active discharges
- None within 5km
- Recent discharges (last 48 hours)
- None within 5km
- Upstream river network
- None reported affecting this spot’s river reaches
- Surrounding overflow coverage
- Within an ingested water company network
- Monitoring season
- Currently in regulator monitoring season
Source: Environment Agency
Discharges traced through the river network by sewage-map.
Water body baseline
The Environment Agency classifies this water body (Waveney (Starston Brook - Ellingham Mill)) as Moderate ecological status (2022 classification). That is a Water Framework Directive assessment of long-term ecosystem health — plants, invertebrates, fish, chemistry — not a bacteriological measure of whether the water is safe to swim in today. It is shown as context and plays no part in the verdict above.
The EA’s Catchment Data Explorer page for this water body →
Source: EA Catchment Data Explorer, Open Government Licence v3.0 — data as of 21 Aug 2026, 10:40 UTC.
What this verdict means
Status unknown means we won't guess: a signal the verdict would need is missing. The evidence rows above show exactly what is and isn't available for this spot.
Every verdict here is computed from regulator classifications, sample dates, pollution-risk forecasts, and water-company discharge reports — it is not a water test. Absence of a negative signal is not positive confirmation of safety, and conditions on the day (rainfall, currents, cold) matter as much as water quality. Read how statuses are decided.