Junc Promenade Silverdale Rd CSO

Storm overflow run by United Utilities, discharging into Morecambe Bay Estuarine Wtrs.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency
Right now
Discharging now
Since on · 1 h 15 min so far.
Times are UK time. Company feed updated just now

"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
18spills
at least 8.2 h discharging on 18 days · live feed, before 28 Feb via Top of the Poops, not yet official · 2 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
39spills
190 h · −22% on 2024
Rank in United Utilities
#593
of 2,242 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
99.8% working
Long-term average 21.8 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
0 spills · 0 hmonitor 100%
2022
0 spills · 0 hmonitor 100%
2023
42 spills · 148 hmonitor 100%
2024
50 spills · 136 hmonitor 99.0%
2025
39 spills · 190 hmonitor 99.8%
2026so far
18 spills · at least 8.2 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 United Utilities's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
Not asset maintenance - Hydraulic capacity
Investigation
No investigation activity in reporting period
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2018
Water body
KENT

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

335 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2023, 1 still open, 2 whose end the feed never gave. 314 of them come from United Utilities's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2023 – Dec 2025); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 335)
StartedEndedDischarge time
16 min
24 min
14 min
16 min
30 min
26 min
not captured, before not captured
12 min
6 min
not captured, before not captured
24 min
12 h 18 min
2 h 8 min
16 min
18 h 10 min
20 min
36 min
32 min
17 h 42 min
36 min
20 min
13 h 52 min
10 min
54 min
42 min
1 h 26 min
16 h 34 min
44 min
32 min
46 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 514 raw blocks were merged into 335 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state United Utilities's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 4 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 4 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Levens, 7.0 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
Beetham Weir (River Bela) · 4.4 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Westmorland and Furness
United Utilities's own name for it
Arnside Promenade/Silverdale Road CSO
Site reference
UUP01040 · permit EPRYP3621XD
Coordinates
54.20170, -2.83566

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?

Report pollution you can see or smell to the regulator straight away; the company handles complaints about the overflow itself.

Write to the MP

The Environment Agency's return places this overflow in the Morecambe and Lunesdale 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: © United Utilities 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.