Egglescliffe Bank CSO

Storm overflow run by Northumbrian Water, discharging into Tees Estuary.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Stockton West constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (9 hours ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 4 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
21spills
at least 6.3 h discharging on 22 days · live feed, before 28 Feb via Top of the Poops, not yet official · 3 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
47spills
56 h · −41% on 2024
Rank in Northumbrian Water
#136
of 1,547 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
99.5% working
Long-term average 74.3 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 the live feed: our own log of it begins on 28 February, and the discharges before that are Top of the Poops' record of the same feed. 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
72 spills · 105 hmonitor 100%
2022
81 spills · 76 hmonitor 98.6%
2023
104 spills · 121 hmonitor 97.3%
2024
79 spills · 154 hmonitor 99.7%
2025
47 spills · 56 hmonitor 99.5%
2026so far
21 spills · at least 6.3 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 Northumbrian Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
Not asset maintenance - Hydraulic capacity
Investigation
Operational investigation completed
Improvement work
Operational improvement completed
Monitored since
2013
Water body
Tees from Skerne to Tidal Limit

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

964 discharge periods since 9 Jan 2020, 3 whose end the feed never gave. 934 of them come from Northumbrian Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2020 – Dec 2024); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 964)
StartedEndedDischarge time
10 min
8 min
28 min
2 min
34 min
8 min
8 min
20 min
4 min
12 min
not captured, before not captured
2 min
40 min
4 min
42 min
24 min
4 min
2 min
26 min
14 min
3 min
4 min
2 h 46 min
6 min
4 min
4 min
52 min
1 h 20 min
44 min
2 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 2,108 raw blocks were merged into 964 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Northumbrian Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 7 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 7 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Morton Palms, 10.0 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
Yarm (River Tees) · 0.1 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Stockton-on-Tees (B)
Site reference
NWL00500 · permit 254/1179
Coordinates
54.51183, -1.35407

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?

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Write to the MP

The Environment Agency's return places this overflow in the Stockton 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: © Northumbrian 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 "via Top of the Poops", and this year's figures before 28 February, 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.