Armadale WwTW-Storm Tank Ssso

Storm overflow run by Scottish Water, discharging into Barbauchlaw Burn.

SSSO
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended 06:07 on 28 Sep 2026 (3 days ago).
Times are UK time · company feed updated 11 min ago

"Not discharging" means the company's monitor reports no discharge right now — not that the water is clean. The feed publishes status only; no discharge volume is measured.

2026 so far
5overflow events
36 h discharging on 5 days · live feed since 28 Feb, not yet official
2025 official
79overflow events
1,428 h · +65% on 2024
Rank in Scottish Water
—
No ranking for this overflow.
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Share of the year the monitor reported

Year by year

Scottish Water's overflow data reported to SEPA (number of overflow events; Scottish Water does not use the 12/24-hour count). 2026 is our own running count, the same way, from the live feed since 28 February (when we began keeping every discharge it reports) — so it can only be lower than the full year. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
27 events · 5,904 h
2022
51 events · 2,631 h
2023
52 events · 1,803 hmonitor 81.6%
2024
48 events · 1,191 hmonitor 99.5%
2025
79 events · 1,428 hmonitor 100%
2026since 28 Feb
5 events · 36 h

"No data" means the monitor was not working or not required to report that year — not zero. Scottish Water counts each overflow event; England and Wales count 12/24-hour "spills", so these numbers are not directly comparable with English or Welsh overflows.

Downstream of this overflow

The next gauge downstream that the river map places is Polmonthill (Avon (Forth Valley)), 19.4 km along the river.

A river gauge measures the level of the river; it does not measure this overflow's discharge, and a spill does not by itself explain a change there. Traced on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Discharges we have recorded

130 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2024. 127 of them come from Scottish Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published by the company, Jan 2024 – Dec 2025); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 130)
Started (UK time)EndedDischarge time
3 Dec 2025, 14:0722:078 h 0 min
1 Dec 2025, 18:0702:071 d 8 h
1 Dec 2025, 06:0714:078 h 0 min
26 Nov 2025, 22:0702:071 d 4 h
23 Nov 2025, 06:0718:071 d 12 h
22 Nov 2025, 02:0806:073 h 59 min
18 Nov 2025, 12:3906:0717 h 28 min
12 Nov 2025, 22:0710:072 d 12 h
11 Nov 2025, 14:0719:031 d 4 h
10 Nov 2025, 10:0702:0716 h 0 min
9 Nov 2025, 14:0722:078 h 0 min
5 Nov 2025, 14:0714:071 d 0 h
5 Nov 2025, 02:0706:074 h 0 min
3 Nov 2025, 06:0718:071 d 12 h
1 Nov 2025, 10:0718:078 h 0 min
1 Nov 2025, 02:0706:074 h 0 min
31 Oct 2025, 02:0706:074 h 0 min
5 Oct 2025, 11:0814:383 h 30 min
2 Oct 2025, 22:0704:382 d 6 h
1 Oct 2025, 10:0618:078 h 1 min
19 Sep 2025, 02:0604:172 h 11 min
16 Sep 2025, 02:0510:058 h 0 min
15 Sep 2025, 18:0601:127 h 6 min
14 Sep 2025, 18:0910:0515 h 56 min
13 Sep 2025, 14:0602:0511 h 59 min
13 Sep 2025, 06:0510:054 h 0 min
11 Sep 2025, 22:0902:063 h 57 min
11 Sep 2025, 08:3614:095 h 33 min
10 Sep 2025, 21:2900:002 h 31 min
7 Sep 2025, 21:5623:271 h 31 min

The year figures above use the EA's 12/24-hour counting method, so they are comparable with the official figures.

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Whitburn, 4.1 km away. Brown shading = when this overflow was discharging; ▼ = a discharge start.

Overflow shading is a timing match, not proof of cause — heavy rain and spills share a trigger. Times come from the water company’s event-duration monitor (site status only; no discharge volume is published).

Where it is

Nearest river gauge
Whitburn (Almond (Lothian)) · 4.1 km
Nearest rain gauge
Whitburn · 4.1 km
Site reference
CSO007491
Coordinates
55.90683, -3.70145

Concerned about this overflow?

Report pollution you can see or smell to the regulator straight away; the company handles complaints about the overflow itself.

Live status: © Scottish Water, near-real-time Overflow Map data, open licence for reuse. EDM monitors indicate overflows; they do not confirm them, and this is not advice on water quality. Spill-event history and annual figures: Scottish Water overflow event data, Open Government Licence. Times are shown in UK local time. FloodRadar republishes the monitor's status; it does not measure discharges itself.