Greenock No5 CSO (Campbell St) Ns273771

Storm overflow run by Scottish Water, discharging into Firth Of Clyde.

CSO
Right now
Discharging now
Since on · 5 h 54 min so far.
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 4 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
at least 20 h discharging on 6 days · live feed since 23 Sep, not yet official · 3 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
48overflow events
194 h · +7% on 2024
Rank in Scottish Water
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No ranking for this overflow.
Monitor in 2025
94.2% 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 23 September (when we began keeping every discharge it reports) — so it can only be lower than the full year. The feed reports only each overflow's latest discharge, so a discharge it moved past before we saw it end is counted as one spill with no hours: the hours are a floor. The official figure is published next spring.

2022
no data
2023
53 events · 1,274 hmonitor 82.5%
2024
45 events · 195 hmonitor 100%
2025
48 events · 194 hmonitor 94.2%
2026since 23 Sep
6 events · at least 20 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 Firth Of Clyde. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

0m Greenock No4 CSO (Forsyth St) Ns272772dischargingCSO000093 —no 2025 figure

This overflow: 48 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points.

Discharges we have recorded

99 discharge periods since 20 Jan 2024, 1 still open, 3 whose end the feed never gave. 93 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 99)
StartedEndedDischarge time
3 h 5 min
7 h 26 min
1 h 37 min
10 h 14 min
12 h 36 min
3 h 59 min
1 h 34 min
4 h 38 min
4 h 22 min
34 min
1 h 12 min
4 h 24 min
6 h 47 min
1 h 14 min
6 h 27 min
1 h 3 min
4 h 11 min
49 min
1 h 35 min
28 min
1 h 23 min
5 h 45 min
4 h 48 min
2 h 45 min
1 h 40 min
2 h 0 min
19 min
54 min
22 min
3 h 10 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 104 raw blocks were merged into 99 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Scottish Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 3 states. The feed publishes its status now and its latest discharge, nothing older; the discharges above are read from this. It is here so the figures can be checked.

Show the last 3 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Discharging → no end yet
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Muirshiel RG, 12.2 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
Linnbrane (Leven (Loch Lomond)) · 12.4 km
Nearest rain gauge
Muirshiel RG · 12.2 km
Site reference
CSO000096
Coordinates
55.95811, -4.76828

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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.