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Kilmarnock Water water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across East Ayrshire, updated every 15 minutes.

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Howard Park—0.34 m 13m 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 Kilmarnock Water above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.

No gauged tributary joins Kilmarnock Water above Howard Park on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where Kilmarnock Water goes

Below Howard Park, its water next reaches Shewalton, a gauge on Irvine, 12.6 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.

Streams without a gauge

Named streams on the river map that flow into Kilmarnock Water and have no gauge of their own. Each has a page with what is known about it: the next gauge downstream, and any storm overflows or water-sampling points placed on it.

Storm overflows upstream

6 storm overflows are traced upstream of Howard Park, Kilmarnock Water’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Kilmarnock Water itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 5 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 Howard Park: 263 overflow events over 510 hours in total, across the 5 that have a figure. 1 had no data that year. 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 Kilmarnock Water includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Howard Park, Kilmarnock Water’s highest gauge6 overflows

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Kilmarnock Douglas Street CSO Ns427373 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Kilmarnock Water · 20 m from Howard Park in a straight line · too close to Howard Park to say which side · 2025: no data
  • Kilmarnock, 22 Holehouse Road CSO Monitor offline
    Scottish Water · into Galleon Burn · 1.0 km from Howard Park in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 26 overflow events, 43 h
  • Kilmarnock Kirkstyle School CSO Ns434366 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Irvine · 1.1 km from Howard Park in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 100 overflow events, 81 h
  • Kilmarnock, 20 Kay Park Terr/Grassyards Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Galleon Burn · 1.2 km from Howard Park in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 1 overflow event, 0.1 h
  • Kilmarnock, 14 Walnut Road CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Gargieston Burn · 1.3 km from Howard Park in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · no official annual figure
  • Kilmarnock Linfern Ave East CSO Ns441373 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Tributary Of River Irvine · 1.3 km from Howard Park in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 1 overflow event, 1.0 h
  • Kilmarnock, 54 Bruce Street CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Simons Burn · 1.6 km from Howard Park in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · no official annual figure
  • Kilmarnock, 41 Macdonald Drive CSO Monitor offline
    Scottish Water · into New Mill Burn · 1.8 km from Howard Park in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 0 overflow events, 0 h
  • Kilmarnock, 25-27 Loreny Drive CSO Monitor offline
    Scottish Water · into Simons Burn · 2.1 km from Howard Park in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: no data
  • Kilmarnock, Loreny SPS CSO Monitor offline
    Scottish Water · into Simons Burn · 2.3 km from Howard Park in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 1 overflow event, 0.1 h
  • Crosshouse, Crossdene SPS CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Moorfield Burn · 2.8 km from Howard Park in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · no official annual figure

11 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Kilmarnock Water’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.