Bentley Sewage Treatment Works

Storm overflow run by Yorkshire Water, discharging into Bentley Mill Stream.

Storm tank at sewage treatment works Doncaster North 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
45spills
at least 776 h discharging on 45 days · counted by us, not yet official · 22 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
40spills
459 h · −51% on 2024
Rank in Yorkshire Water
#459
of 2,161 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
99.9% working
Long-term average 29.2 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 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.

2021
14 spills · 129 hmonitor 7%
2022
0 spills · 0 hmonitor 74.9%
2023
0 spills · 0 hmonitor 99.9%
2024
82 spills · 300 hmonitor 99.9%
2025
40 spills · 459 hmonitor 99.9%
2026so far
45 spills · at least 776 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
Performance - SW Infiltration
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
Don from Mill Dyke to River Ouse

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

52 discharge periods since 22 Jan 2026, 22 whose end the feed never gave. 33 of them come from Yorkshire Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 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.

Show 30 earlier (of 52)
StartedEndedDischarge time
not captured, before 0 min
not captured, before not captured
14 min
42 min
3 min
8 h 23 min
13 h 50 min
0 min
2 min
4 h 58 min
0 min
1 min
1 h 25 min
16 h 26 min
12 h 30 min
10 h 4 min
20 h 6 min
23 h 12 min
21 h 0 min
23 h 50 min
23 h 20 min
23 h 38 min
23 h 26 min
23 h 34 min
23 h 32 min
23 h 0 min
4 d 23 h
4 d 12 h
18 h 10 min
4 h 48 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 126 raw blocks were merged into 52 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Armthorpe, 6.7 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
Bentley Ings Screen (Fowler Bridge Drain) · 0.8 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Doncaster District (B)
Yorkshire Water's own name for it
Bentley/STW
Site reference
YWS00073 · permit 1978
Coordinates
53.54501, -1.13930

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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.