Lynmouth (Manor Gardens) STW

Storm overflow run by South West Water, discharging into Lynmouth Bay.

Storm tank at sewage treatment works Bathing water

Linked bathing water: Lynmouth, 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
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (8 hours ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 1 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
30spills
44 h discharging on 28 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
31spills
80 h · +417% on 2024
Rank in South West Water
#538
of 1,357 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
78.0% working
Long-term average 19.9 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 and the live feed. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
5 spills · 34 hmonitor 100%
2022
18 spills · 242 hmonitor 82.0%
2023
no data
2024
6 spills · 25 hmonitor 68.3%
2025
31 spills · 80 hmonitor 78.0%
2026so far
30 spills · 44 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
Not asset maintenance - hydraulic capacity
Investigation
No investigation activity in reporting period
Improvement work
Env Act (SODRP) improvement ongoing
Monitored since
2010
Water body
Not part of a WFD catchment

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

161 discharge periods since 12 Sep 2025. 122 of them come from South West Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Sep 2025 – Feb 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 161)
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10 min
5 min
11 min
10 min
12 min
13 min
11 min
10 min
6 min
8 min
7 min
12 min
9 min
6 min
25 min
13 min
5 min
5 min
9 min
5 min
9 min
13 min
5 min
1 min
10 min
2 min
38 min
2 min
4 min
5 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 590 raw blocks were merged into 161 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state South West Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 40 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.

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Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Brendon, 5.7 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
Barbrook Bridge (West Lyn River) · 2.7 km
Nearest rain gauge
South West Water's own name for it
LYNMOUTH STW_SSO_LYNMOUTH
Site reference
SBB00729 · permit 202404
Coordinates
51.23689, -3.82952

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: © South West 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", 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.