Creaton SPS

Storm overflow run by Anglian Water, discharging into Un-named Trib River Nene.

Storm discharge at pumping station Daventry constituency
Right now
No live feed
Anglian Water does not publish a live status for this overflow; only the annual figures below are available.

"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
15spills
at least 39 h discharging on 16 days · counted by us, not yet official · 1 discharge whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
6spills
14 h · −87% on 2024
Rank in Anglian Water
#662
of 1,428 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
99.8% working
Long-term average 26.0 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 Anglian Water's monitor log. The feed reports only each overflow's latest discharge, so a discharge it moved past before we saw it end is counted as one spill with no hours: the hours are a floor. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
no data
2022
no data
2023
1 spill · 8.3 hmonitor 100%
2024
46 spills · 223 hmonitor 99.3%
2025
6 spills · 14 hmonitor 99.8%
2026so far
15 spills · at least 39 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 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
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2024
Water body
Hollowell Arm of Spratton Brook

"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

129 discharge periods since 2 Jan 2024, 1 whose end the feed never gave. 124 of them come from Anglian Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2024 – Mar 2026); this overflow has no live feed, so nothing after that log is held. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 129)
StartedEndedDischarge time
15 min
15 min
15 min
30 min
15 min
15 min
30 min
15 min
4 h 30 min
30 min
3 h 45 min
15 min
15 min
30 min
15 min
15 min
15 min
6 h 45 min
15 min
15 min
15 min
15 min
15 min
30 min
15 min
15 min
15 min
1 h 30 min
15 min
1 h 30 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 212 raw blocks were merged into 129 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Coton, 2.1 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
Brixworth (River Nene) · 4.0 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
West Northamptonshire
Anglian Water's own name for it
Creaton Hospital Sm
Site reference
AWS00292 · permit AW5NF53
Coordinates
52.33891, -0.97694

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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. 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.