Deva Terrace CSO

Storm overflow run by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, discharging into River Dee.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Chester North and Neston constituency

Linked bathing water: Lower Dee. Named in the company’s return to the Environment Agency. This page does not say anything about water quality there.

Right now
Discharging now
Since on · 1 h 6 min so far.
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 5 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
6spills
at least 6.1 h discharging on 6 days · live feed since 23 Sep, not yet official · 12 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
44spills
79 h · −49% on 2024
Rank in Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
#23
of 119 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
96.6% working
Long-term average 63.1 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 the live feed since 23 September (when we began keeping every discharge it reports) — so it can only be lower than the full year. 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
50 spills · 51 hmonitor 96.4%
2022
55 spills · 55 hmonitor 95.4%
2023
81 spills · 100 hmonitor 98.7%
2024
87 spills · 155 hmonitor 97.8%
2025
44 spills · 79 hmonitor 96.6%
2026since 23 Sep
6 spills · at least 6.1 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

Dwr Cymru Welsh Water runs another overflow within 300 m that also discharges into River Dee. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

83m Dee Lane CSODCW00041Chester Dee Lane Adjacent Deva Terrace 58spills in 2025

This overflow (Chester Deva Terrace No 13 Front Lawn): 44 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points. The names in brackets are Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's own, from its return.

What the 2025 return says

From Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
Not Applicable - Ongoing investigation
Investigation
No investigation activity in reporting period
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2018
Water body
Finchetts Gutter

This overflow spilled often enough to trigger the EA's high-spill review; the review line is the company's own stated reason.

Discharges we have recorded

626 discharge periods since 3 Jan 2020, 1 still open, 12 whose end the feed never gave. 612 of them come from Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published by the company, Jan 2020 – Dec 2025); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 626)
StartedEndedDischarge time
3 min
29 min
not captured, before not captured
1 h 59 min
15 min
15 min
15 min
45 min
15 min
2 h 0 min
1 h 30 min
2 h 0 min
30 min
1 h 0 min
1 h 15 min
15 min
1 h 0 min
15 min
15 min
30 min
30 min
30 min
45 min
1 h 30 min
45 min
1 h 0 min
15 min
2 h 0 min
15 min
15 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 901 raw blocks were merged into 626 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 11 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 11 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Thornton le Moors, 9.7 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
Countess Way, Abbot's Mead (Finchett's Gutter) · 2.3 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Cheshire West and Chester (B)
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's own name for it
Chester Deva Terrace No 13 Front Lawn
Site reference
DCW00042 · permit CM0124701
Coordinates
53.19053, -2.87852

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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Write to the MP

The Environment Agency's return places this overflow in the Chester North and Neston 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: © Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, from its Storm Overflow Map. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0. Spill-event history: © Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water's published EDM start/stop records. Annual figures: The Rivers Trust EDM compilation, © Dŵr Cymru/Welsh Water, Open Government Licence. 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.