Clevedon Beach Pumping Station

Storm overflow run by Wessex Water, discharging into Bristol Channel.

Storm discharge at pumping station Bathing water North Somerset constituency

Linked bathing water: Clevedon Beach, classified Good for 2025. Named in the company’s return to the Environment Agency. A name opens that bathing water’s official profile, with any pollution warning in the season. The classification is the Environment Agency’s for that bathing season, from all its samples there: it is not a reading of the water today, and it does not say what part this overflow played.

Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (48 days ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated just now

"Not discharging" means the company's monitor reports no discharge right now — not that the water is clean. The feed publishes status only; no discharge volume is measured.

2026 so far
5spills
4.3 h discharging on 5 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
5spills
2.4 h · −38% on 2024
Rank in Wessex Water
#856
of 1,285 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 8.0 spills a year

Year by year

The Environment Agency's official annual returns, counted the EA's way (12/24-hour spills). 2026 is our own running count, the same way, from Wessex Water's monitor log and the live feed. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
7 spills · 2.4 h
2022
1 spill · 0.6 hmonitor 86.8%
2023
11 spills · 9.8 hmonitor 94.1%
2024
8 spills · 3.7 hmonitor 100%
2025
5 spills · 2.4 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
5 spills · 4.3 h

A spill is the EA's 12/24-hour count: the first 12 hours of a discharge count as one, each further 24 hours with discharge as one more. "Monitor" is the share of that year the monitor was working, so a 0 beside a working monitor is a real zero; "no data" means the monitor produced no usable data that year — not zero. Years before 2024 are matched to this site by name and location, because the EA's site IDs changed that year; a monitor figure beside one of them means the outlet's permit confirms the match.

What the 2025 return says

From Wessex Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Investigation
Env Act (SODRP) investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2017
Water body
BRISTOL AVON

"High spill threshold not met" means this overflow did not spill often enough to trigger the EA's formal high-spill review for that year. It is not a statement that the spills were harmless.

Discharges we have recorded

12 discharge periods since 5 Jan 2025. 10 of them come from Wessex Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2025 – Aug 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 2 earlier
StartedEndedDischarge time
5 min
23 min

The year figures above use the EA's 12/24-hour counting method, so they are comparable with the official figures; the monitor log's 19 raw blocks were merged into 12 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Wessex Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 1 state. The feed publishes its status now and its latest discharge, nothing older; the discharges above are read from this. It is here so the figures can be checked.

Show the last 1 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Clevedon, 2.7 km away. Brown shading = when this overflow was discharging; ▼ = a discharge start.

Overflow shading is a timing match, not proof of cause — heavy rain and spills share a trigger. Times come from the water company’s event-duration monitor (site status only; no discharge volume is published).

Where it is

Nearest river gauge
Wraxall (Land Yeo) · 8.1 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
North Somerset
Wessex Water's own name for it
Clevedon The Beach SPS
Site reference
WXW00298 · permit 100767
Coordinates
51.44135, -2.86168

Tell me when this overflow discharges

One message when the company's monitor reports a new discharge here. At most one every 6 hours.

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Concerned about this overflow?

Report pollution you can see or smell to the regulator straight away; the company handles complaints about the overflow itself.

Write to the MP

The Environment Agency's return places this overflow in the North Somerset constituency. An MP can ask the company and the regulator questions on a constituent's behalf. These words carry the official figures; change them as you like.

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Live status: © Wessex Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0. Storm-overflow spill events: © the respective water company, published on Stream (data.streamwaterdata.co.uk) under CC BY 4.0. Times are shown in UK local time. FloodRadar republishes the monitor's status and the EA's figures; it does not measure discharges itself. Constituency and council area from the EA's return: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.