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Nethan water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across South Lanarkshire, updated every 15 minutes.

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0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
KirkmuirhillKirkmuirhill0.28 m 38m 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 Nethan 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 Nethan above Kirkmuirhill on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where the Nethan goes

Below Kirkmuirhill, its water next reaches Blairston, a gauge on Clyde, 30.2 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

4 storm overflows are traced upstream of Kirkmuirhill, the Nethan’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Nethan itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 2 not discharging
  • 2 offline or silent: 2 monitor offline, 0 status unknown, 0 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Kirkmuirhill: 67 overflow events over 279 hours in total, across the 3 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 the Nethan includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Kirkmuirhill, the Nethan’s highest gauge4 overflows
  • Lesmahagow, Ne Of Parish Church CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Nethan · 4.0 km by river above Kirkmuirhill · 2025: 5 overflow events, 1.8 h
  • Lesmahagow Milton CSO 2004 Ns815404 Monitor offline
    Scottish Water · into River Nethan · 3.8 km by river above Kirkmuirhill · 2025: 10 overflow events, 9.0 h
  • Lesmahagow WwTW Ssso Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Nethan · 2.9 km by river above Kirkmuirhill · 2025: no data
  • Lesmahagow WwTW CSO Monitor offline
    Scottish Water · into River Nethan · 2.9 km by river above Kirkmuirhill · 2025: 52 overflow events, 268 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Dukes Walk CSO 2005 Ns797433 Monitor offline
    Scottish Water · into Un-Named Tributary Of River Nethan · 1.2 km from Kirkmuirhill in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · no official annual figure

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