St Peters St And Newsons Meadow CSO

Storm overflow run by Anglian Water, discharging into Inner Harbour.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Lowestoft constituency
Right now
Discharging now
Since on · 1 h 53 min so far.
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 1 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
72spills
at least 33 h discharging on 73 days · counted by us, not yet official · 19 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
55spills
75 h · −31% on 2024
Rank in Anglian Water
#45
of 1,428 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
99.8% working
Long-term average 71.3 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 Anglian Water's monitor log and the live feed. The feed reports only each overflow's latest discharge, so a discharge it moved past before we saw it end is counted as one spill with no hours: the hours are a floor. The official figure is published next spring.

2024
80 spills · 119 hmonitor 100%
2025
55 spills · 75 hmonitor 99.8%
2026so far
72 spills · at least 33 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

Anglian Water runs 6 other overflows within 300 m that also discharge into Inner Harbour. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

0m Rotterdam Road #1 CSOAWS01066Rotterdam Road #1 Combined Sewer Overflow 4spills in 2025
0m Rotterdam Road #2 CSOAWS01067Lowestoft - Rotterdam & Gorleston Csos 27spills in 2025
0m St Peters St And Newsons Meadow CSOAWS01265Lowestoft CSO’s 15spills in 2025
0m St Peters Street CSOAWS01266St Peter's Street #x Combined Sewer Overflow 33spills in 2025
0m Yeovil Road Combined Sewer OverflowAWS01552Yeovil Road Combined Sewer Overflow 4spills in 2025
104m Norwich Road CSO's (#1 & #2)AWS00943Lowestoft-Norwich Rd So 0spills in 2025

This overflow (Lowestoft - St Peters St/Newsons Meadow): 55 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points. The names in brackets are Anglian Water's own, from its return.

What the 2025 return says

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

High-spill review
Not asset maintenance - Hydraulic capacity
Long-term review
Not Applicable - Ongoing investigation
Investigation
Env Act (SODRP) investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2023
Water body
Waveney (Ellingham Mill - Burgh St. Peter)

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

526 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2024, 1 still open, 19 whose end the feed never gave. 435 of them come from Anglian Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2024 – Jul 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 526)
StartedEndedDischarge time
not captured, before not captured
7 min
2 min
15 min
38 min
1 h 12 min
9 min
not captured, before not captured
5 min
2 min
not captured, before not captured
not captured, before not captured
20 min
4 min
not captured, before not captured
2 min
7 min
4 min
22 min
5 min
4 min
15 min
not captured, before not captured
2 min
2 min
2 min
6 min
3 min
4 min
51 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 839 raw blocks were merged into 526 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Anglian Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 41 states. 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 40 states
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Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Corton, 4.9 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
Lowestoft (Tide) · 0.9 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
East Suffolk District
Anglian Water's own name for it
Lowestoft - St Peters St/Newsons Meadow
Site reference
AWS01264 · permit ASETS4083/16977
Coordinates
52.47418, 1.73698

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One message when the company's monitor reports a new discharge here. At most one every 6 hours.

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Live status: © Anglian 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. 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.