Anglian Water storm overflows

1,435 storm overflows · 1,366 with a live status feed · regulated by the Environment Agency.

Discharging now
0
of 1,361 overflows reporting live
Spills in 2025
17,115
official, from 1,428 monitored overflows
Hours in 2025
105k
total discharge time, 74 h per overflow
Average per overflow
12.0
spills each in 2025 · -61% on 2024 (30.6)

Discharging now

None reported discharging in the latest feed update. "Not discharging" means the monitors report no discharge — not that the water is clean.

Year by year

Spills reported across all of Anglian Water's monitored overflows.

2021774 sites
19,793 spills · 183k h
2022979 sites
14,818 spills · 84k h
20231,307 sites
28,907 spills · 255k h
20241,435 sites
43,919 spills · 449k h
20251,428 sites
17,115 spills · 105k h

More overflows were monitored each year (774 in 2021, 1,428 in 2025), so part of any rise is more monitors, not only more spilling.

Official Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring returns, 12/24-hour counting method (the first 12 hours of a discharge count as one spill, each further 24 hours as one more). Earlier years are matched to today's overflows by name and location, because the EA's site IDs changed between returns; a site that could not be matched is left out of that year rather than guessed.

Most spills in 2025

The overflows that spilled most often. A red tag means discharging right now.

1
155506 h
2
Hallaton STW Medbourne Brook River Welland
1551,126 h
3
Ramsey Water Recycling Centre The Ramsey High Lode
1451,432 h
4
Thorpe Malsor STW Shutlanger Brook
118757 h
5
Great Easton(Leics) STW River Welland Nt
1111,895 h
6
Manthorpe STW East Glen River
111335 h
7
Nettleham STW Nettleham Beck
1091,585 h
8
1021,645 h
9
991,239 h
10
Southend Sewage Works Thames Estuary
94237 h
11
Knossington STW Unnamed Stream River Gwash
93780 h
12
881,548 h
13
Pertenhall STW Keysoe Brook. River Kym Nt
801,273 h
14
Thealby STW Unknown Trib
80770 h
15
East Langton STW Langton Brook River Welland N
78368 h
16
77353 h
17
Marston Moretaine Wrc Marston Brook
76914 h
18
Newnham(Northants) Wrc Kislingbury Branch R.nene Nt
761,099 h
19
75332 h
20
King's Lynn Tunnel PS Tidal River Great Ouse
75178 h
21
73377 h
22
731,250 h
23
72272 h
24
Ingoldmells Wrc North Sea
72160 h
25
South Rauceby Water Recycling Centr The Beck To A Trib Of River Sl
71672 h

Rivers and seas it discharges into most

Spills in 2025 from Anglian Water's overflows, by receiving water (names grouped approximately).

1
North Sea 30 overflows
6241,859 h
2
River Nene 50 overflows
4832,523 h
3
Thames Estuary 29 overflows
305451 h
4
The River Humber 5 overflows
284980 h
5
River Welland 11 overflows
1781,624 h
6
River Wensum 22 overflows
170272 h
7
Medbourne Brook River Welland 2 overflows
1661,187 h
8
River Ise 10 overflows
1661,928 h
9
Leiston Beck 11 overflows
164178 h
10
River Welland Nt 3 overflows
1612,560 h

Concerned about an overflow?

Report pollution you can see to the Environment Agency on 0800 80 70 60 — they log and investigate incidents. Complaints about a company's service go to the company first.

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. FloodRadar republishes the monitors' status and the published figures; it does not measure discharges itself, and a monitor reports a discharge, not its volume or its cause.