Kenton Road/Rockerby Drive CSO

Storm overflow run by Northumbrian Water, discharging into Ouse Burn.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Newcastle upon Tyne North constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (758 days ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 7 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
0spills
0 h discharging · live feed, before 28 Feb via Top of the Poops, not yet official
2025 official
0spills
0 h · same as 2024
Rank in Northumbrian Water
#1,296
of 1,547 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
76.0% working
Long-term average 0.3 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 official figure is published next spring.

2021
0 spills · 0 h
2022
1 spill · 0.3 h
2023
0 spills · 0 h
2024
0 spills · 0 hmonitor 68.6%
2025
0 spills · 0 hmonitor 76.0%
2026so far
0 spills · 0 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.

Other outlets here

Northumbrian Water runs 2 other overflows within 300 m that also discharge into Ouse Burn. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

2m St Nicholas Hospital SSONWL01267St Nicholas Hospital SSO 2spills in 2025
125m CSO At Three Mile InnNWL00382CSO At Three Mile Inn 0spills in 2025

This overflow: 0 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points.

Downstream of this overflow

The next gauge downstream that the river map places is Gosforth (Ouse Burn), 680 m along the river.

Water-sampling points downstream

The nearest Environment Agency sampling points the river map places below Gosforth. Points between this overflow and that gauge cannot be put in order with it on the map, so they are not listed.

A sample is dated: it is not the river now, and its results are on its own page. A sample taken after a discharge does not show that the discharge caused what was measured. Samples: Environment Agency Water Quality Archive, © Environment Agency and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.

A river gauge measures the level of the river; it does not measure this overflow's discharge, and a spill does not by itself explain a change there. Traced on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

What the 2025 return says

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

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Investigation
Env Act (SODRP) investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2022
Water body
Ouse Burn from Source to Tyne

"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

2 discharge periods since 9 Sep 2022. 1 of them come from Northumbrian Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Sep 2022 – Sep 2022); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

The year figures above use the EA's 12/24-hour counting method, so they are comparable with the official figures.

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 : 1 state. 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 1 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Hazlerigg Village, 1.6 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
Gosforth (Ouse Burn) · 0.6 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Newcastle upon Tyne District (B)
Site reference
NWL00749 · permit 235/1549
Coordinates
55.01959, -1.62273

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.

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.