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Dee (Grampian) water levels

Live levels from 5 monitoring stations across Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, updated every 15 minutes.

5stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Mar Lodge—0.67 m 20m agoNormal—
Polhollick—0.43 m 20m agoNormal—
WoodendWoodend0.50 m 20m agoNormal—
ParkPark0.84 m 20m agoNormal—
Garthdee—0.57 m 35m agoLow—

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 Dee (Grampian) 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.

3 gauged tributaries, 3 gauges

Gairn

Joins the Dee (Grampian) between Polhollick and Woodend, no more than 41.9 km by river above Woodend.

Invergairn0.13 m 20m agoNormal

Its water passes Woodend and every gauge below it on the Dee (Grampian). It does not pass Polhollick or the gauges above it.

Muick

Joins the Dee (Grampian) between Polhollick and Woodend, no more than 38.8 km by river above Woodend.

Invermuick0.43 m 20m agoNormal

Its water passes Woodend and every gauge below it on the Dee (Grampian). It does not pass Polhollick or the gauges above it.

Feugh

Joins the Dee (Grampian) between Woodend and Park, no more than 14.6 km by river above Park.

Heugh Head0.94 m 35m agoNormal

Its water passes Park and every gauge below it on the Dee (Grampian). It does not pass Woodend or the gauges above it.

Where the Dee (Grampian) goes

No gauge below Garthdee 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

18 storm overflows are traced upstream of Garthdee, the Dee (Grampian)’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Dee (Grampian) itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

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

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Garthdee: 588 overflow events over 1,329 hours in total, across the 12 that have a figure. 2 had no data that year; 4 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 Dee (Grampian) includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Between Polhollick and Woodend6 overflows
  • Ballater Tullich CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Dee · 37.4 km by river above Woodend · no official annual figure
  • Ballater WwTW CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Dee · 36.3 km by river above Woodend · no official annual figure
  • Birsemore WwTW Ssso And EO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Dee · 14.8 km by river above Woodend · 2025: no data
  • Aboyne WwTW CSO And EO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Dee · 14.2 km by river above Woodend · no official annual figure
  • Lumphanan New WwTW CSO And EO Nj573033 Monitor offline
    Scottish Water · into Lumphanan Burn · 13.5 km by river above Woodend · 2025: 22 overflow events, 100 h
  • Kincardine O'neil WwTW CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Dee · 6.2 km by river above Woodend · no official annual figure
Between Woodend and Park4 overflows
Between Park and Garthdee8 overflows

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Aberdeen, Garthdee Rd (On Grass Bank) Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Dee · 60 m from Garthdee in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · 2025: 5 overflow events, 1.4 h
  • Headland Court PS EO CSO Nj926039 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Un-Named Watercourse · 800 m from Garthdee in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 0 overflow events, 0 h
  • Aberdeen, Wellington Road CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Dee · 2.5 km from Garthdee in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · 2025: 17 overflow events, 3.8 h

1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below the Dee (Grampian)’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.