Gladstone Terrace North

Storm overflow run by South West Water, discharging into Longrock Stream.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Bathing water St. Ives constituency

Linked bathing water: Long Rock, classified Excellent for 2025. Named in the company’s return to the Environment Agency. A name opens that bathing water’s official profile, with any pollution warning in the season. The classification is the Environment Agency’s for that bathing season, from all its samples there: it is not a reading of the water today, and it does not say what part this overflow played.

Right now
No live feed
South West 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
21spills
165 h discharging on 21 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
23spills
125 h · same as 2024
Rank in South West Water
#648
of 1,357 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 15.9 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 South West Water's monitor log. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
13 spills · 35 hmonitor 100%
2022
9 spills · 20 hmonitor 100%
2023
14 spills · 28 hmonitor 100%
2024
23 spills · 86 hmonitor 100%
2025
23 spills · 125 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
21 spills · 165 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 South West 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
No investigation activity in reporting period
Improvement work
Env Act (SODRP) improvement ongoing, Bathing Water and/or Shellfish Water improvement ongoing
Monitored since
2010
Water body
Not part of a WFD catchment

"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

46 discharge periods since 4 Jan 2025. 43 of them come from South West Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2025 – Feb 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 46)
StartedEndedDischarge time
4 h 16 min
4 min
15 min
17 min
4 h 1 min
7 min
25 min
2 h 25 min
4 min
9 min
17 h 8 min
1 h 45 min
11 h 10 min
15 h 9 min
27 min
1 d 9 h
29 min
34 min
29 min
15 h 25 min
54 min
4 h 40 min
8 min
5 h 41 min
15 min
21 min
47 min
46 min
2 h 56 min
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 79 raw blocks were merged into 46 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Penzance, 4.9 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
Penzance Alverton (Lariggan River) · 4.0 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Cornwall
South West Water's own name for it
GLADSTONE TERRACE NORTH_CSO_PENZANCE
Site reference
SBB00491 · permit 300271
Coordinates
50.12926, -5.50017

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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. 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.