Woodbridge Deben Road CSO

Storm overflow run by Anglian Water, discharging into River Deben Tidal.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Shellfish water Suffolk Coastal constituency
Right now
No live feed
Anglian 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
21spills
7.3 h discharging on 21 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
17spills
7.8 h · −58% on 2024
Rank in Anglian Water
#325
of 1,428 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 34.4 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. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
29 spills · 19 hmonitor 100%
2022
33 spills · 19 hmonitor 100%
2023
40 spills · 22 hmonitor 100%
2024
40 spills · 21 hmonitor 100%
2025
17 spills · 7.8 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
21 spills · 7.3 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 Anglian Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Long-term review
Not Applicable - Ongoing investigation
Investigation
Bathing Water and/or Shellfish Water investigation ongoing
Improvement work
Env Act (SODRP) improvement ongoing, Bathing Water and/or Shellfish Water improvement ongoing
Monitored since
2019
Water body
DEBEN

"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

137 discharge periods since 4 Jan 2024. 128 of them come from Anglian Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2024 – Jun 2026); this overflow has no live feed, so nothing after that log is held. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 137)
StartedEndedDischarge time
11 min
2 min
2 min
31 min
23 min
12 min
17 min
4 min
29 min
18 min
29 min
12 min
56 min
16 min
6 min
10 min
1 h 4 min
2 min
16 min
2 min
4 min
13 min
21 min
21 min
4 min
6 min
19 min
21 min
6 min
10 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 178 raw blocks were merged into 137 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Martlesham, 2.4 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
Woodbridge (Suffolk Coast) · 0.9 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
East Suffolk District
Site reference
AWS01534 · permit AW4TS1417
Coordinates
52.09373, 1.32405

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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.