Winchburgh Outfall CSO Nt091744

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

CSO
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended 14:29 on 27 Sep 2026 (4 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
3overflow events
4.9 h discharging on 3 days · live feed since 28 Feb, not yet official
2025 official
10overflow events
41 h
Rank in Scottish Water
—
No ranking for this overflow.
Monitor in 2025
15.3% 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
no data
2023
no data
2024
no data
2025
10 events · 41 hmonitor 15.3%
2026since 28 Feb
3 events · 4.9 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.

Other outlets here

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

0m Winchburgh Lower Transfer CSO Nt091744CSO006849 —no 2025 figure
0m Winchburgh WwTW Storm SssoCSO007430 —no 2025 figure
50m Winchburgh, 82 Castle Terrace CSOCSO004026 —no 2025 figure

This overflow: 10 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points.

Downstream of this overflow

The next gauge downstream that the river map places is Craigiehall (Almond (Lothian)), 9.6 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

13 discharge periods since 10 Nov 2025. 10 of them come from Scottish Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published by the company, Nov 2025 – Dec 2025); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 3 earlier
Started (UK time)EndedDischarge time
13 Nov 2025, 15:4522:477 h 2 min
13 Nov 2025, 03:5110:306 h 39 min
10 Nov 2025, 06:4507:0621 min

The year figures above use the EA's 12/24-hour counting method, so they are comparable with the official figures.

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Gogarbank, 7.6 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
Newliston (Brox Burn (East Lothian)) · 2.5 km
Nearest rain gauge
Gogarbank · 7.6 km
Site reference
CSO006831
Coordinates
55.95429, -3.45528

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.