Tunstall Sewage Pumping Station

Storm overflow run by Yorkshire Water, discharging into Tunstall Beck.

Storm discharge at pumping station 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
6spills
20 h discharging on 6 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
5spills
5.0 h · −62% on 2024
Rank in Yorkshire Water
#1,513
of 2,161 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
97.6% working
Long-term average 12.2 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. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
2 spills · 2.0 hmonitor 77.6%
2022
17 spills · 15 hmonitor 72.4%
2023
34 spills · 134 hmonitor 95.4%
2024
13 spills · 112 hmonitor 100%
2025
5 spills · 5.0 hmonitor 97.6%
2026so far
6 spills · 20 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
Long-term review
Not asset maintenance - hydraulic capacity
Investigation
UWWTR investigation ongoing, Operational investigation completed
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2020
Water body
Brough Bk/Scotton Bk from Source to River Swale

"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

6 discharge periods since 11 Feb 2026. 6 of them come from Yorkshire Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Feb 2026 – Aug 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 13 raw blocks were merged into 6 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Little Crakehall, 5.6 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

Nearest river gauge
Catterick Village (Brough Beck) · 3.5 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
North Yorkshire
Yorkshire Water's own name for it
Tunstall Village/CSO
Site reference
YWS01255 · permit WADC438
Coordinates
54.35973, -1.58601

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.