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Teviot water levels

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

3stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
TeviotheadTeviothead0.10 m 1h agoNormal—
HawickHawick0.48 m 19m agoNormal—
Ormiston MillOrmiston0.40 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 Teviot 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

Slitrig

Joins the Teviot between Teviothead and Hawick, no more than 8.8 km by river above Hawick.

Stobs Castle0.12 m 3h agoNormal

Its water passes Hawick and every gauge below it on the Teviot. It does not pass Teviothead or the gauges above it.

Ale Water

Joins the Teviot between Hawick and Ormiston Mill, no more than 13.6 km by river above Ormiston Mill.

Ancrum0.32 m 19m agoNormal

Its water passes Ormiston Mill and every gauge below it on the Teviot. It does not pass Hawick or the gauges above it.

Jed Water

Joins the Teviot between Hawick and Ormiston Mill, no more than 11.8 km by river above Ormiston Mill.

Chesters0.26 m 34m agoNormal
Jedburgh0.41 m 19m agoNormal

Its water passes Ormiston Mill and every gauge below it on the Teviot. It does not pass Hawick or the gauges above it.

Where the Teviot goes

Below Ormiston Mill, its water next reaches Sprouston, a gauge on River Tweed, 12.0 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

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

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 11 not discharging
  • 3 offline or silent: 2 monitor offline, 1 status unknown, 0 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Ormiston Mill: 423 overflow events over 912 hours in total, across the 10 that have a figure. 3 had no data that year; 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 Teviot includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Between Teviothead and Hawick7 overflows
  • Hawick, Glebe Mill Street CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Teviot · 1.4 km by river above Hawick · 2025: 3 overflow events, 1.5 h
  • Hawick, Hawick STW CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Teviot · 1.1 km by river above Hawick · 2025: 20 overflow events, 20 h
  • Hawick WwTW 1930 Nt512155 Status unknown
    Scottish Water · into River Teviot · 1.1 km by river above Hawick · 2025: 0 overflow events, 0 h
  • Hawick, Weensland Syphon CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Teviot · 1.1 km by river above Hawick · 2025: no data
  • Hawick WwTW - Storm Tanks Ssso Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Teviot · 620 m by river above Hawick · 2025: 109 overflow events, 683 h
  • Hawick, Off Hamilton Road CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Teviot · 480 m by river above Hawick · 2025: 210 overflow events, 130 h
  • Hawick, Mansfield Road SPS CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Teviot · 330 m by river above Hawick · 2025: 4 overflow events, 1.3 h
Between Hawick and Ormiston Mill4 overflows
  • Denholm WwTW Ssso Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Teviot Water · 20.7 km by river above Ormiston Mill · 2025: 5 overflow events, 13 h
  • Ancrum WwTW CSO Monitor offline
    Scottish Water · into Ale Water · 12.5 km by river above Ormiston Mill · 2025: 6 overflow events, 24 h
  • Jedburgh WwTW 6dwf Inlet CSO And EO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Teviot Water · 7.9 km by river above Ormiston Mill · 2025: no data
  • Jedburgh WwTW Storm Tank Ssso Monitor offline
    Scottish Water · into Teviot Water · 7.9 km by river above Ormiston Mill · 2025: no data
Ale Water, above Ancrumjoins the Teviot above Ormiston Mill1 overflow
  • Midlem WwTW CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Ale Water · 15.4 km by river above Ancrum · no official annual figure
Jed Water, above Jedburghjoins the Teviot above Ormiston Mill2 overflows

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Hawick, 31 Commercial Road CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Wilton Burn · 2.0 km from Hawick in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 2 overflow events, 0.8 h

1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below the Teviot’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.