Fauldhouse WwTW Ssso

Storm overflow run by Scottish Water, discharging into Breich Water.

SSSO
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended 15:15 on 22 Jan 2026 (251 days 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
1overflow event
0.2 h discharging on 1 day · live feed since 28 Feb, not yet official
2025 official
37overflow events
17 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
37 events · 17 hmonitor 100%
2026since 28 Feb
1 event · 0.2 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.

Twin outlet

Scottish Water runs another overflow within 300 m that also discharges into Breich Water. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

41m Fauldhouse WwTW CSOCSO003304 —no 2025 figure

This overflow: 37 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points.

Downstream of this overflow

The next gauge downstream that the river map places is Almondell (Almond (Lothian)), 22.2 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

34 discharge periods since 24 Jan 2025. 33 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 24 earlier
Started (UK time)EndedDischarge time
4 Oct 2025, 07:3007:355 min
3 Oct 2025, 00:4000:455 min
16 Sep 2025, 01:3501:405 min
14 Sep 2025, 21:5021:555 min
29 Aug 2025, 14:4514:5510 min
28 Aug 2025, 16:2016:3010 min
24 Jul 2025, 11:2511:5025 min
24 Jul 2025, 09:5510:5055 min
17 Jul 2025, 18:4518:505 min
17 Jul 2025, 15:4515:505 min
17 Jul 2025, 14:0514:105 min
17 Jul 2025, 13:2013:4525 min
17 Jul 2025, 11:3012:2035 min
6 Jul 2025, 16:5517:2530 min
6 Jul 2025, 14:1014:155 min
5 Jul 2025, 01:1003:152 h 5 min
4 Jul 2025, 22:5500:401 h 45 min
4 Jul 2025, 13:5514:1520 min
4 Jul 2025, 10:5511:5050 min
2 Jul 2025, 15:1015:4535 min
14 Jun 2025, 11:0011:1010 min
14 Jun 2025, 06:2506:3510 min
20 Feb 2025, 13:5514:0510 min
24 Jan 2025, 13:4013:5010 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 39 raw blocks were merged into 34 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Whitburn, 5.4 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)) · 5.4 km
Nearest rain gauge
Whitburn · 5.4 km
Site reference
CSO004274
Coordinates
55.82365, -3.69239

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.