Pembroke Road CSO

Storm overflow run by Wessex Water, discharging into River Avon.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Bristol South constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (177 days ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 3 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
4spills
7.8 h discharging on 4 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
15spills
43 h · −48% on 2024
Rank in Wessex Water
#548
of 1,285 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 22.0 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 Wessex Water's monitor log and the live feed. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
no data
2022
no data
2023
21 spills · 61 hmonitor 99.7%
2024
29 spills · 119 hmonitor 99.4%
2025
15 spills · 43 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
4 spills · 7.8 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

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

1m Bedminster Road CSOWXW00121Bristol Bedminster Road Side Of 191 8spills in 2025
12m Myrtle Street CSOWXW00767Bristol Myrtle St In Car Park 25spills in 2025

This overflow (Bristol Pembroke Road No 19): 15 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points. The names in brackets are Wessex Water's own, from its return.

What the 2025 return says

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

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Long-term review
Data collection - Confirmed exceptional weather
Investigation
Operational investigation completed
Improvement work
Operational improvement ongoing
Monitored since
2024
Water body
Not part of a river WB 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

20 discharge periods since 5 Jan 2025. 20 of them come from Wessex Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2025 – May 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 10 earlier
StartedEndedDischarge time
1 h 2 min
46 min
1 h 0 min
40 min
3 h 20 min
36 min
2 h 48 min
4 h 14 min
8 min
1 h 4 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 24 raw blocks were merged into 20 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Wessex 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 Bristol, 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
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
City of Bristol (B)
Wessex Water's own name for it
Bristol Pembroke Road No 19
Site reference
WXW00851 · permit 103307
Coordinates
51.44641, -2.60481

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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Write to the MP

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Live status: © Wessex 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. Constituency and council area from the EA's return: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.