Tbc When Permit Issued

Storm overflow run by Yorkshire Water, discharging into Hooton Pagnell Beck.

Inlet storm overflow at sewage treatment works Doncaster North constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (5 hours ago).
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
34spills
43 h discharging on 34 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
31spills
51 h · −31% on 2024
Rank in Yorkshire Water
#648
of 2,161 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 52.2 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 and the live feed. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
45 spills · 48 h
2022
60 spills · 101 h
2023
70 spills · 87 h
2024
45 spills · 65 hmonitor 100%
2025
31 spills · 51 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
34 spills · 43 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
Not asset maintenance - hydraulic capacity
Investigation
UWWTR investigation ongoing, Operational investigation completed
Improvement work
Operational improvement completed
Monitored since
2020
Water body
Frickley Beck from Source to Ea Beck

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

141 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2024. 116 of them come from Yorkshire Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2024 – Aug 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 141)
StartedEndedDischarge time
5 min
2 h 56 min
1 h 30 min
1 h 45 min
30 min
11 min
0 min
5 h 3 min
9 min
1 min
3 min
1 min
15 min
3 h 37 min
7 min
1 min
0 min
10 min
45 min
5 min
15 min
2 min
41 min
11 h 56 min
6 h 30 min
15 min
3 h 5 min
32 min
1 min
15 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 191 raw blocks were merged into 141 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Yorkshire Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 9 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 9 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Not discharging →
Not discharging →
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr South Elmsall, 2.5 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
South Elmsall (Ea Beck) · 3.7 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Doncaster District (B)
Yorkshire Water's own name for it
Hooton Pagnell/STW
Site reference
YWS00138 · permit Permit applied for
Coordinates
53.56910, -1.27365

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?

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Write to the MP

The Environment Agency's return places this overflow in the Doncaster North constituency. An MP can ask the company and the regulator questions on a constituent's behalf. These words carry the official figures; change them as you like.

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Live status: © Yorkshire 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.