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Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across City of Edinburgh, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colinton | 0.18 m 38m ago | Normal | ||
| 7.3 km by river | ||||
| Murrayfield | 0.49 m 38m ago | Normal | ||
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.
Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Water of Leith above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.
Joins the Water of Leith between Colinton and Murrayfield, no more than 8.1 km by river above Murrayfield.
| Murray Burn | 0.04 m 53m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Murrayfield and every gauge below it on the Water of Leith. It does not pass Colinton or the gauges above it.
No gauge below Murrayfield 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.
16 storm overflows are traced upstream of Murrayfield, the Water of Leith’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Water of Leith itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Murrayfield: 392 overflow events over 568 hours in total, across the 7 that have a figure. 9 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 Water of Leith includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Water of Leith’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
11 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Water of Leith’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.
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