Bo'ness WwTW Ssso

Storm overflow run by Scottish Water, discharging into Forth Estuary.

SSSO
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended 11:45 on 30 Sep 2026 (2 hours ago).
Times are UK time · company feed updated 8 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
6overflow events
14 h discharging on 6 days · live feed since 28 Feb, not yet official
2025 official
885overflow events
679 h
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 published data for monitored overflows (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.

2022
no data
2023
no data
2024
no data
2025
885 events · 679 hmonitor 100%
2026since 28 Feb
6 events · 14 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.

Discharges we have recorded

791 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2025. 768 of them come from Scottish Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published by the company, Jan 2025 – Dec 2025); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 791)
Started (UK time)EndedDischarge time
28 Sep 2026, 15:3515:405 min
28 Sep 2026, 11:3011:4010 min
28 Sep 2026, 09:2509:4015 min
28 Sep 2026, 07:3507:405 min
28 Sep 2026, 06:3006:4010 min
28 Sep 2026, 05:3005:4010 min
28 Sep 2026, 02:3502:405 min
28 Sep 2026, 01:3001:4010 min
27 Sep 2026, 20:1022:403 h 0 min
27 Sep 2026, 12:0019:457 h 50 min
26 Sep 2026, 17:2517:4015 min
23 Sep 2026, 15:3015:355 min
23 Sep 2026, 14:3014:355 min
22 Dec 2025, 12:4513:0010 min
22 Dec 2025, 11:4011:5010 min
22 Dec 2025, 10:4010:455 min
22 Dec 2025, 09:3009:4515 min
22 Dec 2025, 04:5508:403 h 45 min
19 Dec 2025, 17:3517:4510 min
19 Dec 2025, 15:2015:5535 min
18 Dec 2025, 22:3522:405 min
18 Dec 2025, 20:3021:4555 min
18 Dec 2025, 02:5503:4035 min
18 Dec 2025, 02:0002:3030 min
17 Dec 2025, 15:5517:401 h 30 min
17 Dec 2025, 06:3006:4010 min
14 Dec 2025, 23:2523:3510 min
14 Dec 2025, 22:2522:4015 min
14 Dec 2025, 21:1521:3520 min
14 Dec 2025, 20:2520:5530 min

The year figures above use the EA's 12/24-hour counting method, so they are comparable with the official figures; the monitor log's 912 raw blocks were merged into 791 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Polmonthill STW, 7.9 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
Polmonthill (Avon (Forth Valley)) · 7.9 km
Nearest rain gauge
Polmonthill STW · 7.9 km
Site reference
CSO007031
Coordinates
56.02209, -3.56147

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.