Shepshed - Jcn Cambridge St Leicester Rd (CSO)

Storm overflow run by Severn Trent Water, discharging into Trib Black Brook.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Loughborough constituency
Right now
No live feed
Severn Trent 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.

2024 official
8spills
6.9 h · +700% on 2023
Rank in Severn Trent Water
#1,443
of 2,445 overflows by 2024 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2024
96.5% working
Long-term average 14.0 spills a year

Year by year

The Environment Agency's official annual returns, counted the EA's way (12/24-hour spills).

2021
8 spills · 2.4 h
2023
1 spill · 0.1 h
2024
8 spills · 6.9 hmonitor 96.5%
2025
no data

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

Severn Trent Water runs another overflow within 300 m that also discharges into Trib Black Brook. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

0m Shepshed - Leicester Road O/S No 156 (CSO)SVT02006Shepshed - Leicester Road O/S No 156 (CSO) 43spills in 2024

This overflow: 8 spills in 2024. Distances are between the published outlet points.

What the 2024 return says

From Severn Trent 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
2021
Water body
Black Brook from Grace Dieu Brook to Soar

"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

10 discharge periods since 2 Jan 2024. 10 of them come from Severn Trent Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024); 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.

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Loughborough, 3.9 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
Shepshed (Black Brook) · 1.5 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Charnwood District (B)
Site reference
SVT02005 · permit TBC
Coordinates
52.77168, -1.29018

Concerned about this overflow?

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