Scruton Wpc Works

Storm overflow run by Yorkshire Water, discharging into Common Stell.

Inlet storm overflow at sewage treatment works Richmond and Northallerton constituency
Right now
No live feed
Yorkshire Water does not publish a live status for this overflow; only the annual figures below are available.

"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
2spills
10 h discharging on 2 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
2spills
5.5 h · −86% on 2024
Rank in Yorkshire Water
#1,699
of 2,161 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
99.5% working
Long-term average 8.0 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 Yorkshire Water's monitor log. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
8 spills · 69 hmonitor 100%
2022
3 spills · 7.3 hmonitor 99.9%
2023
11 spills · 75 hmonitor 100%
2024
14 spills · 90 hmonitor 100%
2025
2 spills · 5.5 hmonitor 99.5%
2026so far
2 spills · 10 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 Yorkshire Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Investigation
Operational investigation completed
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2020
Water body
Ings Goit from Source to Burneston Beck

"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 8 Feb 2026. 2 of them come from Yorkshire Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Feb 2026 – Feb 2026); this overflow has no live feed, so nothing after that log is held. 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; the monitor log's 3 raw blocks were merged into 2 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Romanby, 4.7 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
Leeming (Bedale Beck) · 2.6 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
North Yorkshire
Yorkshire Water's own name for it
Scruton/STW
Site reference
YWS00371 · permit 27/23/0276
Coordinates
54.32896, -1.52942

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

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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. 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.