Dodnor Pumping Station CSO & EO

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

Storm discharge at pumping station Shellfish water Isle of Wight West constituency
Right now
Discharging now
Since on · 9 h 1 min so far.
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
64spills
569 h discharging on 67 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
76spills
646 h · −22% on 2024
Rank in Southern Water
#18
of 970 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
99.9% working
Long-term average 87.3 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 Southern Water's monitor log and the live feed. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
77 spills · 483 hmonitor 100%
2022
75 spills · 535 hmonitor 100%
2023
108 spills · 999 hmonitor 99.9%
2024
97 spills · 786 hmonitor 100%
2025
76 spills · 646 hmonitor 99.9%
2026so far
64 spills · 569 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

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

288m Fairlee Combined Sewer OverflowdischargingSWS00293Fairlee CSO - 111781 52spills in 2025

This overflow (Dodnor CEO - 108516): 76 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points. The names in brackets are Southern Water's own, from its return.

What the 2025 return says

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

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

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

186 discharge periods since 3 Apr 2024, 1 still open. 179 of them come from Southern Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (from its Rivers and Seas Watch service, Apr 2024 – Oct 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 186)
StartedEndedDischarge time
23 min
9 h 16 min
29 min
4 h 0 min
20 min
3 h 17 min
5 h 29 min
1 h 10 min
2 h 12 min
4 h 38 min
11 h 34 min
4 h 56 min
1 h 8 min
51 min
25 min
50 min
9 h 54 min
8 h 29 min
5 h 59 min
13 h 45 min
7 h 1 min
1 h 1 min
1 d 2 h
2 h 29 min
1 h 56 min
2 h 32 min
15 h 17 min
45 min
11 h 4 min
16 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 245 raw blocks were merged into 186 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Southern 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 →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Newport, 3.1 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
Newport (Tide) · 1.6 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Isle of Wight
Southern Water's own name for it
Dodnor CEO - 108516
Site reference
SWS00256 · permit A01284
Coordinates
50.71648, -1.28818

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 Isle of Wight West 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: © Southern 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. 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. 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. Constituency and council area from the EA's return: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.