Sea Lawns Pumping Station
Sign in to saveStorm 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 and the live feed. 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.
Other outlets here
South West Water runs 2 other overflows within 300 m that also discharge 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 (SEA LAWNS SPS_PSCSOEO_DAWLISH): 1 spill 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.
"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
4 discharge periods since 1 Mar 2024. 4 of them come from South West Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Mar 2024 – Feb 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.
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34 min
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8 min
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57 min
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57 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 5 raw blocks were merged into 4 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).
Look back by date
Discharge records held: from 1 Jan 2024. Choose the dates of a flood or a storm to see every discharge recorded then.
Days run midnight to midnight, UK time, up to 366 days at a time. A discharge beside rain or a flood is a timing match, not proof of cause, and no volume is published.
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 : 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
| Seen | Status | Since | Latest discharge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not discharging | → |
Rain nearby last 30 days
Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Dawlish, 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
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 "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.