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Live levels from 3 monitoring stations across City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitburn | 0.20 m 22m ago | Normal | ||
| 18.5 km by river | ||||
| Almondell | 0.29 m 37m ago | Normal | ||
| 14.5 km by river | ||||
| Craigiehall | 0.34 m 37m ago | Normal | ||
Stations are listed from source to mouth as the water flows, traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers) and the Environment Agency’s own links between its gauges. A distance “by river” is along the river, and is shown only where the map traces the path.
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Almond (Lothian) above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.
Joins the Almond (Lothian) between Almondell and Craigiehall, no more than 7.4 km by river above Craigiehall.
| Newliston | 0.11 m 52m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Craigiehall and every gauge below it on the Almond (Lothian). It does not pass Almondell or the gauges above it.
Joins the Almond (Lothian) between Almondell and Craigiehall, no more than 4.7 km by river above Craigiehall.
| Turnhouse | 0.16 m 37m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Craigiehall and every gauge below it on the Almond (Lothian). It does not pass Almondell or the gauges above it.
No gauge below Craigiehall is known on the river map.
Tributaries and where they join are traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers, edition 2026-04) and the Environment Agency’s links between its gauges. The map holds distances between gauges, not the junctions themselves, so a junction is placed between two gauges, and no further up than the tributary’s own lowest gauge. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
45 storm overflows are traced upstream of Craigiehall, the Almond (Lothian)’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Almond (Lothian) itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Craigiehall: 4,620 overflow events over 2,421 hours in total, across the 40 that have a figure. 5 have no 2025 figure. Scottish Water counts overflow events, not the 12/24-hour spills counted in England and Wales, so this total cannot be set beside theirs.
Each overflow is listed in the stretch above the first gauge its water reaches, from the source down, as on the Gauges tab. A stretch of the Almond (Lothian) includes the smaller streams that join it there. Where a stretch or a tributary has more than 4, the 3 discharging now or nearest its gauge are listed, the rest are counted, and every one is in that gauge’s “Upstream of here” list. Show every overflow in every stretch →
and 4 more: show all 7 overflows on this stretch → All above Whitburn, nearest first →
and 20 more: show all 23 overflows on this stretch → All above Almondell, nearest first →
and 4 more: show all 7 overflows on this stretch → All above Craigiehall, nearest first →
and 3 more: show all 6 overflows on this stretch → All above Newliston, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the Almond (Lothian)’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
2 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Almond (Lothian)’s lowest gauge or on another river, so not listed.
A status is the water company’s own monitor: it says whether an overflow is discharging, never how much or why, and a spill does not by itself explain a change in a river level. A status older than two hours is shown as unknown. Annual figures are the official returns: 12/24-hour spills for England and Wales, overflow events for Scotland (Scottish Water counts differently, so the two cannot be compared). “No data” means the monitor produced no usable data that year, not zero. Overflows are placed on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels: an overflow the map cannot place may still drain here. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Sewage in Britain’s rivers →
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. Annual figures for Scotland: Scottish Water overflow event data, Open Government Licence.
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