Sandy Lane Pumping Station
Storm overflow run by South West Water, discharging into Lyme Bay.
"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.
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.
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.
Twin outlet
South West Water runs another overflow within 300 m that also discharges into Lyme Bay. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.
This overflow (SANDY LANE LF SPST_PSCSOEO_DAWLISH): 49 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points. The names in brackets are South West Water's own, from its return.
What the 2025 return says
From South West Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.
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
184 discharge periods since 2 Jan 2024. 184 of them come from South West Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2024 – Mar 2026); this overflow has no live feed, so nothing after that log is held. The official annual count is the figure to quote.
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40 min
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36 min
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18 min
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4 h 0 min
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1 h 22 min
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28 min
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53 min
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41 min
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1 h 53 min
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24 min
Show 30 earlier (of 184)
| Started | Ended | Discharge time |
|---|---|---|
| 12 min | ||
| 25 min | ||
| 58 min | ||
| 7 min | ||
| 2 h 26 min | ||
| 7 h 9 min | ||
| 3 h 58 min | ||
| 13 min | ||
| 9 min | ||
| 1 h 33 min | ||
| 1 h 44 min | ||
| 1 h 51 min | ||
| 1 h 5 min | ||
| 16 min | ||
| 12 min | ||
| 15 min | ||
| 48 min | ||
| 50 min | ||
| 4 min | ||
| 42 min | ||
| 2 h 34 min | ||
| 37 min | ||
| 3 h 47 min | ||
| 16 min | ||
| 8 min | ||
| 2 h 58 min | ||
| 56 min | ||
| 54 min | ||
| 21 min | ||
| 3 h 56 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 212 raw blocks were merged into 184 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).
Rain nearby last 30 days
Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Dawlish, 2.2 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
Concerned about this overflow?
Report pollution you can see or smell to the regulator straight away; the company handles complaints about the overflow itself.
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 "EA start/stop data": Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow start/stop detailed data, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0; the companies' monitor records as the EA received them, not verified by the EA. Times are shown in UK local time. FloodRadar republishes the monitor's status and the EA's figures; it does not measure discharges itself.