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Brox Burn (East Lothian) water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across City of Edinburgh, updated every 15 minutes.

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Newliston—0.11 m 37m agoNormal—

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.

Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Brox Burn (East Lothian) above one of its gauges, from the source down. The river map knows where gauges are, not every stream, so a tributary without a gauge is not listed here.

No gauged tributary joins the Brox Burn (East Lothian) above Newliston on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where the Brox Burn (East Lothian) goes

Below Newliston, its water next reaches Craigiehall, a gauge on Almond (Lothian), 7.4 km by river downstream.

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.

Storm overflows upstream

6 storm overflows are traced upstream of Newliston, the Brox Burn (East Lothian)’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Brox Burn (East Lothian) itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 6 not discharging
  • 0 offline or silent: 0 monitor offline, 0 status unknown, 0 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Newliston: 132 overflow events over 172 hours in total, across the 5 that have a figure. 1 has 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 Brox Burn (East Lothian) includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Newliston, the Brox Burn (East Lothian)’s highest gauge6 overflows
  • Uphall, Miller Bridge CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Brox Burn · 7.0 km by river above Newliston · 2025: 5 overflow events, 4.2 h
  • Uphall, East Main Street CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Brox Burn · 6.2 km by river above Newliston · no official annual figure
  • Uphall, Uphall SPS CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Beugh Burn · 6.1 km by river above Newliston · 2025: 78 overflow events, 116 h
  • Uphall, Loaninghill CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Brox Burn · 5.9 km by river above Newliston · 2025: 31 overflow events, 17 h
  • Broxburn, Grange Road CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Brox Burn · 3.4 km by river above Newliston · 2025: 15 overflow events, 18 h
  • East Mains Ind Est Swo CSO Nt103724 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Brox Burn · 1.4 km by river above Newliston · 2025: 3 overflow events, 17 h

7 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Brox Burn (East 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.