Bradford Road

Storm overflow run by Yorkshire Water, discharging into River Aire.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Keighley and Ilkley 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
63spills
at least 464 h discharging on 63 days · counted by us, not yet official · 5 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
51spills
235 h · −23% on 2024
Rank in Yorkshire Water
#287
of 2,161 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
90.0% working
Long-term average 41.3 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
38 spills · 94 hmonitor 63.2%
2022
41 spills · 68 hmonitor 68.4%
2023
26 spills · 57 hmonitor 16.3%
2024
66 spills · 226 hmonitor 86.9%
2025
51 spills · 235 hmonitor 90.0%
2026so far
63 spills · at least 464 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
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
Ouse from R Wharfe to Upper Humber

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

89 discharge periods since 31 Jan 2026, 5 whose end the feed never gave. 31 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 89)
StartedEndedDischarge time
45 min
15 min
11 h 0 min
15 min
15 min
1 h 15 min
30 min
30 min
45 min
45 min
1 h 0 min
1 h 31 min
1 h 30 min
1 h 15 min
10 min
15 min
15 min
15 min
1 h 15 min
30 min
5 h 0 min
2 h 15 min
4 h 45 min
30 min
1 h 45 min
15 min
6 h 30 min
10 min
10 min
2 h 0 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 140 raw blocks were merged into 89 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Bradford, 6.2 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
Bingley (River Aire) · 2.0 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Bradford District (B)
Yorkshire Water's own name for it
Brick Kiln Lane/CSO
Site reference
YWS01294 · permit WADC783
Coordinates
53.86720, -1.85520

Concerned about this overflow?

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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.