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Leven (Fife) water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across Perth and Kinross, updated every 15 minutes.

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Loch Leven Sluices—0.20 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 Leven (Fife) 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

Greens Burn

Joins the Leven (Fife) above Loch Leven Sluices, its highest gauge, no more than 6.9 km by river above Loch Leven Sluices.

Damleys Cottage0.04 m 27m agoNormal

Its water passes every gauge on the Leven (Fife), from Loch Leven Sluices down.

North Queich

Joins the Leven (Fife) above Loch Leven Sluices, its highest gauge, no more than 8.9 km by river above Loch Leven Sluices.

Lathro0.37 m 1h agoNormal

Its water passes every gauge on the Leven (Fife), from Loch Leven Sluices down.

South Queich

Joins the Leven (Fife) above Loch Leven Sluices, its highest gauge, no more than 7.4 km by river above Loch Leven Sluices.

Kinross0.48 m 27m agoNormal

Its water passes every gauge on the Leven (Fife), from Loch Leven Sluices down.

Where the Leven (Fife) goes

No gauge below Loch Leven Sluices 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

5 storm overflows are traced upstream of Loch Leven Sluices, the Leven (Fife)’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Leven (Fife) itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 5 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 Loch Leven Sluices: 157 overflow events over 166 hours in total, across the 4 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 Leven (Fife) includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Loch Leven Sluices, the Leven (Fife)’s highest gauge5 overflows
  • The Cross CSO 2015 No121047 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Back Burn · 8.1 km by river above Loch Leven Sluices · 2025: 0 overflow events, 0 h
  • New Road CSO 2015 No121047 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Back Burn · 8.0 km by river above Loch Leven Sluices · 2025: 14 overflow events, 4.2 h
  • Milnathort, Balfour Crescent SPS CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Burleigh Burn · 7.7 km by river above Loch Leven Sluices · 2025: 0 overflow events, 0 h
  • Milnathort, Burleigh Castle SPS CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Burleigh Burn · 7.6 km by river above Loch Leven Sluices · no official annual figure
  • Milnathort WwTW EO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into North Queich River · 7.3 km by river above Loch Leven Sluices · 2025: 143 overflow events, 161 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Loanhead Ave CSO Nt181968 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Un-Named Tributary Of River Ore · 2.8 km from Loch Leven Sluices in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 77 overflow events, 55 h

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.