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Tyne water levels

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

3stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Spilmersford—0.49 m 12m agoLow—
Nungate—0.71 m 12m agoNormal—
East LintonEast Linton0.49 m 12m 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 Tyne 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.

1 gauged tributary, 1 gauge

Colstoun Water name from the river map

Joins the Tyne between Spilmersford and Nungate, no more than 4.1 km by river above Nungate.

Lennoxlove0.13 m 12m agoLow

Its water passes Nungate and every gauge below it on the Tyne. It does not pass Spilmersford or the gauges above it.

Where the Tyne goes

No gauge below East Linton 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

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

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

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of East Linton: 375 overflow events over 3,083 hours in total, across the 6 that have a figure. 4 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 Tyne includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Spilmersford, the Tyne’s highest gauge1 overflow
  • Pencaitland WwTW CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into River Tyne · 180 m by river above Spilmersford · no official annual figure
Colstoun Water, above Lennoxlovejoins the Tyne above Nungate3 overflows
  • Gifford Bowling Club CSO Nt532681 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Gifford Water · 7.7 km by river above Lennoxlove · no official annual figure
  • Gifford, Station Road SPS CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Gifford Water · 7.4 km by river above Lennoxlove · 2025: 0 overflow events, 0 h
  • Gifford WwTW Ssso Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Gifford Water · 7.3 km by river above Lennoxlove · 2025: 81 overflow events, 857 h
Between Nungate and East Linton6 overflows

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