Corton Bakers Score Pumping Station

Storm overflow run by Anglian Water, discharging into The North Sea.

Storm discharge at pumping station
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (3 days ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 6 min ago

"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
14spills
11 h discharging on 14 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
20spills
35 h · −38% on 2024
Rank in Anglian Water
#270
of 1,428 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 26.3 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 Anglian Water's monitor log and the live feed. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
24 spills · 25 hmonitor 100%
2022
19 spills · 22 hmonitor 99.6%
2023
43 spills · 76 hmonitor 100%
2024
32 spills · 60 hmonitor 100%
2025
20 spills · 35 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
14 spills · 11 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.

Twin outlet

Anglian Water runs another overflow within 300 m that also discharges into The North Sea. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

0m Corton - Church Lane TPSAWS00279Corton-Church Lane Sm 1spill in 2025

This overflow: 20 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points.

What the 2025 return says

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

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Long-term review
Not Applicable - Ongoing investigation
Investigation
Env Act (SODRP) investigation ongoing
Improvement work
Operational improvement ongoing
Monitored since
2020
Water body
Norfolk East

"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

98 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2024. 93 of them come from Anglian Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2024 – Jun 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 98)
StartedEndedDischarge time
24 min
1 min
58 min
15 min
34 min
4 h 5 min
38 min
5 min
1 h 7 min
24 min
24 min
5 h 3 min
43 min
8 h 30 min
15 min
48 min
10 min
5 min
14 min
1 h 50 min
58 min
19 min
29 min
5 min
34 min
38 min
24 min
1 h 17 min
24 min
24 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 121 raw blocks were merged into 98 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Anglian Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 3 states. 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 3 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Corton, 0.9 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
Lowestoft (Tide) · 5.1 km
Nearest rain gauge
Site reference
AWS00280 · permit ASETS2120
Coordinates
52.51913, 1.74891

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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The alert repeats the monitor's status: whether the overflow is discharging, not how much or why. It can only tell you about a discharge that starts after you turn it on.

Concerned about this overflow?

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

Live status: © Anglian 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. Discharges marked "EA start/stop data": Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow start/stop detailed data, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0; the companies' monitor records as the EA received them, not verified by the EA. Discharges marked "via Top of the Poops", come from Top of the Poops' record of the same company feed, used under CC BY-SA 4.0: the feed's own start and end times as its pages print them, not their derived hours. Times are shown in UK local time. FloodRadar republishes the monitor's status and the EA's figures; it does not measure discharges itself.