Weeton Wastewater Treatment Works

Storm overflow run by United Utilities, discharging into Trib Main Dyke.

Inlet storm overflow at sewage treatment works Bathing water Fylde constituency

Linked bathing water: Fleetwood, classified Good for 2025. Named in the company’s return to the Environment Agency. A name opens that bathing water’s official profile, with any pollution warning in the season. The classification is the Environment Agency’s for that bathing season, from all its samples there: it is not a reading of the water today, and it does not say what part this overflow played.

Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (16 hours ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 4 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
51spills
at least 13 h discharging on 53 days · live feed, before 28 Feb via Top of the Poops, not yet official · 31 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
87spills
117 h · −42% on 2024
Rank in United Utilities
#116
of 2,242 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 115.5 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 the live feed: our own log of it begins on 28 February, and the discharges before that are Top of the Poops' record of the same 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
150 spills · 256 hmonitor 100%
2025
87 spills · 117 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
51 spills · at least 13 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.

Twin outlet

United Utilities runs another overflow within 300 m that also discharges into Trib Main Dyke. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

0m Weeton Wastewater Treatment WorksUUP02066Weeton WwTW 89spills in 2025

This overflow (Weeton WwTW): 87 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points. The names in brackets are United Utilities's own, from its return.

What the 2025 return says

From United Utilities's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
Not asset maintenance - Hydraulic capacity
Investigation
Env Act (SODRP) investigation ongoing, Operational investigation completed
Improvement work
Env Act (SODRP) improvement ongoing, Operational improvement completed
Monitored since
2017
Water body
Hillylaid Pool - Tidal Wyre

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

1,227 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2024, 31 whose end the feed never gave. 1,141 of them come from United Utilities's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2024 – Dec 2025); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 1,227)
StartedEndedDischarge time
27 min
not captured, before not captured
29 min
4 min
not captured, before not captured
8 min
not captured, before not captured
28 min
not captured, before not captured
4 min
not captured, before not captured
not captured, before 51 min
not captured, before not captured
38 min
14 min
44 min
11 min
not captured, before not captured
1 min
not captured, before not captured
8 min
3 min
26 min
6 min
3 min
2 min
1 h 19 min
9 min
3 min
20 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 5,430 raw blocks were merged into 1,227 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state United Utilities's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 22 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 22 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Not discharging →
Monitor offline →
Not discharging →
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Monitor offline → no end yet
Not discharging → no end yet
Not discharging → no end yet
Monitor offline → no end yet
Not discharging → no end yet
Monitor offline → no end yet
Not discharging → no end yet
Monitor offline → no end yet
Not discharging → no end yet
Not discharging → no end yet
Monitor offline → no end yet
Discharging → no end yet
Monitor offline →
Not discharging →
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Fylde, 4.3 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
Poulton Cottam Hall Field Grid (Horsebridge Dyke) · 6.1 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Fylde District (B)
United Utilities's own name for it
Weeton WwTW
Site reference
UUP02065 · permit 017260056
Coordinates
53.80618, -2.93872

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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Live status: © United Utilities 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 "via Top of the Poops", and this year's figures before 28 February, 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.