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Cree water levels

Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across Dumfries and Galloway, South Ayrshire, updated every 15 minutes.

2stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Wheeb Bridge—0.44 m 27m agoNormal—
Newton StewartNewton Stewart0.64 m 12m 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 Cree 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.

1 gauged tributary, 1 gauge

Water of Minnoch

Joins the Cree between Wheeb Bridge and Newton Stewart, no more than 13.1 km by river above Newton Stewart.

Minnoch Bridge0.59 m 12m agoNormal

Its water passes Newton Stewart and every gauge below it on the Cree. It does not pass Wheeb Bridge or the gauges above it.

Where the Cree goes

No gauge below Newton Stewart 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.

Storm overflows upstream

1 storm overflow is traced upstream of Newton Stewart, the Cree’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Cree itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

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

No official annual figure is held for this overflow, so there is no total to give.

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 Cree includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Between Wheeb Bridge and Newton Stewart1 overflow

Near these gauges, connection not known

Within 3 km of one of the Cree’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.

  • Minnigaff Holmpark Storm PS CSO Nx413652 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Cree · 100 m from Newton Stewart in a straight line · too close to Newton Stewart to say which side · no official annual figure

2 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Cree’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.