Peterhead WwTW - 3dwf Long Outfall CSO

Storm overflow run by Scottish Water, discharging into North Sea.

CSO
Right now
Status unknown
The company’s feed does not report a status for this overflow.
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
0overflow events
0 h discharging · live feed since 28 Feb, not yet official
2025 official
559overflow events
1,044 h · +51% on 2024
Rank in Scottish Water
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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
no data
2022
337 events · 484 h
2023
193 events · 676 hmonitor 100%
2024
369 events · 1,278 hmonitor 100%
2025
559 events · 1,044 hmonitor 100%
2026since 28 Feb
0 events · 0 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

925 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2024. 925 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 925)
Started (UK time)EndedDischarge time
23 Dec 2025, 12:4713:2538 min
23 Dec 2025, 04:1504:3419 min
22 Dec 2025, 19:4420:1733 min
22 Dec 2025, 18:1418:4632 min
22 Dec 2025, 14:4015:1838 min
22 Dec 2025, 10:4011:1232 min
22 Dec 2025, 09:1709:5235 min
21 Dec 2025, 22:2323:0340 min
21 Dec 2025, 19:4020:0424 min
21 Dec 2025, 17:4518:491 h 4 min
21 Dec 2025, 13:3514:1439 min
21 Dec 2025, 12:0712:4437 min
21 Dec 2025, 10:4711:2336 min
21 Dec 2025, 03:1704:531 h 36 min
19 Dec 2025, 14:2515:0439 min
19 Dec 2025, 09:3709:5518 min
18 Dec 2025, 22:5000:151 h 25 min
18 Dec 2025, 11:3812:0123 min
17 Dec 2025, 20:3120:5322 min
17 Dec 2025, 17:4718:0720 min
17 Dec 2025, 08:3109:391 h 8 min
16 Dec 2025, 19:1419:4935 min
16 Dec 2025, 10:5411:3036 min
15 Dec 2025, 19:5220:2937 min
15 Dec 2025, 18:5419:2935 min
15 Dec 2025, 16:3217:501 h 18 min
15 Dec 2025, 10:3110:5120 min
15 Dec 2025, 01:0301:3734 min
14 Dec 2025, 23:0200:431 h 41 min
14 Dec 2025, 14:0114:3736 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 928 raw blocks were merged into 925 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Forehill, 4.3 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
Inverugie (Ugie) · 5.6 km
Nearest rain gauge
Forehill · 4.3 km
Site reference
CSO007526
Coordinates
57.48426, -1.78367

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.