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North Esk (Lothian) water levels

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

1stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
DalmoreDalmore0.06 m 29m 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 North Esk (Lothian) 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 the North Esk (Lothian) above Dalmore on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where the North Esk (Lothian) goes

Below Dalmore, its water next reaches Musselburgh, a gauge on Esk (Lothian), 22.9 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 the North Esk (Lothian) 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

2 storm overflows are traced upstream of Dalmore, the North Esk (Lothian)’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the North Esk (Lothian) itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 2 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 Dalmore: 0 overflow events over 0 hours, from the 1 that has 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 North Esk (Lothian) includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Dalmore, the North Esk (Lothian)’s highest gauge2 overflows
  • Bankmill View Wwps EO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River North Esk · 3.4 km by river above Dalmore · no official annual figure
  • Penicuik, Kirkhill CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River North Esk · 1.9 km by river above Dalmore · 2025: 0 overflow events, 0 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Roslin WwTW Ssso Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Esk · 2.2 km from Dalmore in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 250 overflow events, 703 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.