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North Esk (Tayside) water levels

Live levels from 3 monitoring stations across Angus, updated every 15 minutes.

3stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Waterside Perth—0.00 m 32m agoNormal—
Inveriscandye—0.09 m 17m agoNormal—
Logie MillLogie0.32 m 17m 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 (Tayside) 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, 4 gauges

Water of Mark

Joins the North Esk (Tayside) above Waterside Perth, its highest gauge, no more than 7.2 km by river above Waterside Perth.

Invermark0.32 m 32m agoNormal

Its water passes every gauge on the North Esk (Tayside), from Waterside Perth down.

Luther Water

Joins the North Esk (Tayside) between Inveriscandye and Logie Mill, no more than 6.1 km by river above Logie Mill.

Luther Bridge0.22 m 17m agoNormal

Its water passes Logie Mill and every gauge below it on the North Esk (Tayside). It does not pass Inveriscandye or the gauges above it.

West Water name from the river map

Joins the North Esk (Tayside) between Inveriscandye and Logie Mill, no more than 14.1 km by river above Logie Mill.

Stonyford-0.04 m 17m agoNormal
Dalhousie Bridge0.06 m 17m agoLow

Its water passes Logie Mill and every gauge below it on the North Esk (Tayside). It does not pass Inveriscandye or the gauges above it.

Where the North Esk (Tayside) goes

No gauge below Logie Mill 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 Logie Mill, the North Esk (Tayside)’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the North Esk (Tayside) 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 Logie Mill: 225 overflow events over 566 hours in total, across the 3 that have a figure. 2 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 North Esk (Tayside) includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Between Inveriscandye and Logie Mill2 overflows
  • Brechin, B966/Trinity CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Keithock Burn · 14.2 km by river above Logie Mill · 2025: 0 overflow events, 0 h
  • Laurencekirk WwTW Ssso Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River North Esk · 2.6 km by river above Logie Mill · 2025: no data
Luther Water, above Luther Bridgejoins the North Esk (Tayside) above Logie Mill3 overflows
  • Auchenblae, Auchenblae SPS CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Luther Water · 15.6 km by river above Luther Bridge · 2025: no data
  • Fettercairn WwTW CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Burn Of Cauldcots · 9.4 km by river above Luther Bridge · 2025: 2 overflow events, 10 h
  • Laurencekirk WwTW CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Luther Water · 7.8 km by river above Luther Bridge · 2025: 223 overflow events, 556 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.