Dodnor Lane CSO

Storm overflow run by Southern Water, discharging into Tributary Of River Medina.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Shellfish water Isle of Wight West constituency
Right now
No live feed
Southern 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
23spills
at least 65 h discharging on 27 days · counted by us, not yet official · 1 discharge whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
23spills
65 h · −32% on 2024
Rank in Southern Water
#239
of 970 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 19.9 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 Southern 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
20 spills · 32 hmonitor 100%
2022
24 spills · 64 hmonitor 100%
2023
37 spills · 138 hmonitor 99.9%
2024
34 spills · 110 hmonitor 99.9%
2025
23 spills · 65 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
23 spills · at least 65 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 Southern Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Long-term review
Not asset maintenance - Hydraulic capacity
Investigation
UWWTR investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2016
Water body
MEDINA

"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

67 discharge periods since 7 Jul 2024, 1 whose end the feed never gave. 61 of them come from Southern Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (from its Rivers and Seas Watch service, Jul 2024 – Oct 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 67)
StartedEndedDischarge time
2 h 25 min
17 min
13 min
58 min
1 h 0 min
9 h 13 min
43 min
36 min
7 h 41 min
1 h 59 min
7 h 18 min
3 h 2 min
1 h 32 min
5 h 53 min
2 h 10 min
1 h 33 min
2 h 40 min
9 h 11 min
2 h 13 min
1 h 40 min
38 min
1 h 17 min
2 h 5 min
5 h 39 min
39 min
1 h 10 min
20 min
4 h 24 min
2 h 50 min
1 h 31 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 79 raw blocks were merged into 67 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Newport, 2.2 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
Newport (Tide) · 0.7 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Isle of Wight
Southern Water's own name for it
Dodnor Lane Newport CSO - 102787
Site reference
SWS00255 · permit W00173
Coordinates
50.70832, -1.29141

Concerned about this overflow?

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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. Spill-event history: Southern Water's Rivers and Seas Watch release history (riversandseaswatch.southernwater.co.uk), © Southern Water. Shown by FloodRadar: only releases Southern Water marks Genuine and that have ended; those it marks Not Genuine or still has under review are left out. 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.