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White Cart Water water levels

Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, updated every 15 minutes.

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0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Overlee—0.33 m 10m agoNormal—
17.5 km by river
Hawkhead—0.27 m 10m 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 White Cart Water above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.

3 gauged tributaries, 3 gauges

Earn Water

Joins White Cart Water above Overlee, its highest gauge, no more than 3.7 km by river above Overlee.

Letham0.34 m 10m agoNormal

Its water passes every gauge on White Cart Water, from Overlee down.

Kittoch Water

Joins White Cart Water above Overlee, its highest gauge, no more than 3.5 km by river above Overlee.

Waterside0.24 m 10m agoNormal

Its water passes every gauge on White Cart Water, from Overlee down.

Auldhouse Burn

Joins White Cart Water between Overlee and Hawkhead, no more than 13.9 km by river above Hawkhead.

Spiers Bridge0.08 m 10m agoNormal

Its water passes Hawkhead and every gauge below it on White Cart Water. It does not pass Overlee or the gauges above it.

Where White Cart Water goes

No gauge below Hawkhead 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 White Cart Water 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

61 storm overflows are traced upstream of Hawkhead, White Cart Water’s lowest gauge on the river map: on White Cart Water itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

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

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Hawkhead: 1,303 overflow events over 4,886 hours in total, across the 25 that have a figure. 8 had no data that year; 28 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 White Cart Water includes the smaller streams that join it there. Every overflow traced is listed here, each stretch in full. Back to the short lists →

Above Overlee, White Cart Water’s highest gauge10 overflows
Kittoch Water, above Watersidejoins White Cart Water above Overlee2 overflows
Between Overlee and Hawkhead41 overflows
Auldhouse Burn, above Spiers Bridgejoins White Cart Water above Hawkhead8 overflows

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Williamwood 36 Vardar Avenue CSO Monitor offline
    Scottish Water · into Otter Burn · 1.5 km from Overlee in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: no data
  • Marshalls Lane Wwps CSO EO 2013 Ns485638 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into White Cart Estuary · 1.7 km from Hawkhead in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · no official annual figure
  • Giffnock, Broomley Lane East CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Otter Burn · 1.9 km from Overlee in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · no official annual figure
  • Hillington Buchlyvie Road CSO Ns514644 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into Un-Named Watercourse · 2.1 km from Hawkhead in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · no official annual figure
  • 98 New Sneddon St CSO 2013 Ns483647 Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into White Cart Water · 2.5 km from Hawkhead in a straight line · discharges into a tidal reach, where the water moves both ways · no official annual figure
  • Paisley, Harbour Road CSO Ns483649 Monitor offline
    Scottish Water · into White Cart Estuary · 2.5 km from Hawkhead in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · 2025: 0 overflow events, 0 h
  • Paisley, Cartvale Lane/Love St CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into White Cart Estuary · 2.6 km from Hawkhead in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · no official annual figure
  • Paisley, 1/6 Inchinnan Road CSO Not discharging
    Scottish Water · into White Cart Estuary · 2.6 km from Hawkhead in a straight line · discharges to the sea, an estuary or tidal water · no official annual figure

7 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below White Cart Water’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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