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Spey water levels

Live levels from 8 monitoring stations across Highland, Moray, updated every 15 minutes.

8stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Spey Dam—1.65 m 1h agoNormal—
Invertruim—0.40 m 34m agoNormal—
KincraigKincraig0.27 m 19m agoNormal—
Kinrara—0.24 m 34m agoNormal—
Boat of GartenBoat of Garten0.53 m 19m agoNormal—
Grantown—0.51 m 19m agoNormal—
Aberlour—0.55 m 19m agoNormal—
Boat o Brig—0.18 m 19m 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 Spey above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.

4 gauged tributaries, 6 gauges

Tromie

Joins the Spey between Invertruim and Kincraig, no more than 11.1 km by river above Kincraig.

Tromie Bridge0.14 m 34m agoNormal

Its water passes Kincraig and every gauge below it on the Spey. It does not pass Invertruim or the gauges above it.

Feshie

Joins the Spey between Kincraig and Kinrara, no more than 7.0 km by river above Kinrara.

Feshie Bridge0.59 m 19m agoNormal

Its water passes Kinrara and every gauge below it on the Spey. It does not pass Kincraig or the gauges above it.

Dulnain

Joins the Spey between Boat of Garten and Grantown, no more than 9.0 km by river above Grantown.

Inverlaidnan Bridge0.51 m 34m agoNormal
Balnaan0.15 m 34m agoNormal

Its water passes Grantown and every gauge below it on the Spey. It does not pass Boat of Garten or the gauges above it.

Avon (Spey)

Joins the Spey between Grantown and Aberlour, no more than 21.3 km by river above Aberlour.

Delnashaugh0.35 m 19m agoNormal

Its water passes Aberlour and every gauge below it on the Spey. It does not pass Grantown or the gauges above it.

Gauged streams joining the Avon (Spey)

  • Livet: joins the Avon (Spey) above Delnashaugh (its lowest gauge is 9.3 km by river above it). Gauge, source first: Minmore Normal.

Where the Spey goes

No gauge below Boat o Brig 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.

Streams without a gauge

Named streams on the river map that flow into the Spey 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

12 storm overflows are traced upstream of Boat o Brig, the Spey’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Spey itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 8 not discharging
  • 4 offline or silent: 4 monitor offline, 0 status unknown, 0 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Boat o Brig: 577 overflow events over 488 hours in total, across the 8 that have a figure. 2 had no data that year; 2 have 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 Spey includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Between Invertruim and Kincraig2 overflows
  • Newtonmore WwTW CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Spey · 16.5 km by river above Kincraig · 2025: 10 overflow events, 180 h
  • Kingussie WwTW EO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Spey · 11.4 km by river above Kincraig · no official annual figure
Between Kincraig and Kinrara1 overflow
Between Boat of Garten and Grantown6 overflows
Dulnain, above Balnaanjoins the Spey above Grantown1 overflow
Avon (Spey), above Delnashaughjoins the Spey above Aberlour1 overflow
  • Tomintoul WwTW CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Avon · 21.5 km by river above Delnashaugh · no official annual figure
Between Aberlour and Boat o Brig1 overflow

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.