Prestwick, Powburn Storm Tanks CSO

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

CSO
Right now
Discharging now
Since on · 6 h 2 min so far.
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 5 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
9spills
22 h discharging on 9 days · live feed since 23 Sep, not yet official
Official figure
—
The monitor produced no usable data — not the same as zero.
Rank in Scottish Water
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No ranking for this overflow.
Monitor
—
Monitor uptime not published.

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 official figure is published next spring.

2022
no data
2023
no data
2024
no data
2025
no data
2026since 23 Sep
9 spills · 22 h

"No data" means the monitor was not working or not required to report that year — not zero.

Other outlets here

Scottish Water runs 3 other overflows within 300 m that also discharge into Pow Burn. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

10m Prestwick, Powburn SPS CSOCSO003988 —

Discharges we have recorded

10 discharge periods since 12 Sep 2026, 1 still open. Recorded from the live status feed only — Scottish Water has not published an event-level log we hold, so this is what the feed has shown us, not a complete record. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

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 11 raw blocks were merged into 10 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 : 6 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 6 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Prestwick, 0.1 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
Mainholm (Ayr) · 5.1 km
Nearest rain gauge
Prestwick · 0.1 km
Site reference
CSO003987
Coordinates
55.50574, -4.61115

Tell me when this overflow discharges

One message when the company's monitor reports a new discharge here. At most one every 6 hours.

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The alert repeats the monitor's status: whether the overflow is discharging, not how much or why. It can only tell you about a discharge that starts after you turn it on.

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.