Clanfield WwTW

Storm overflow run by Thames Water, discharging into Halfacre Brook.

Storm tank at sewage treatment works Witney constituency
Right now
Monitor offline
The company reports this overflow’s monitor as offline, so it cannot say whether it is discharging.
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 2 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
47spills
966 h discharging on 47 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
14spills
185 h · −92% on 2024
Rank in Thames Water
#198
of 574 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
97.3% working
Long-term average 111.9 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 Thames Water's monitor log and the live feed. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
148 spills · 3,504 h
2022
40 spills · 542 h
2023
150 spills · 3,156 hmonitor 99.8%
2024
172 spills · 3,403 hmonitor 97.7%
2025
14 spills · 185 hmonitor 97.3%
2026so far
47 spills · 966 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 Thames Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Long-term review
Performance - GW inundation
Investigation
No investigation activity in reporting period
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2019
Water body
Radcot Cut

"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

239 discharge periods since 29 Dec 2022. 239 of them come from Thames Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (from its open data service, Dec 2022 – Mar 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 239)
StartedEndedDischarge time
7 h 0 min
20 h 15 min
1 h 15 min
4 d 17 h
4 h 15 min
1 d 15 h
30 min
16 h 45 min
3 h 45 min
1 d 16 h
2 d 0 h
30 min
45 min
45 min
2 d 4 h
4 h 0 min
45 min
2 h 0 min
12 h 15 min
21 d 13 h
1 h 0 min
6 h 45 min
14 h 45 min
1 h 0 min
22 h 15 min
1 d 11 h
13 h 30 min
9 h 15 min
3 h 0 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 269 raw blocks were merged into 239 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Thames Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 2 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 2 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Monitor offline—
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Lechlade, 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
Clanfield (Clanfield Brook) · 0.8 km
Nearest rain gauge
Lechlade · 6.7 km
Council area
West Oxfordshire District
Thames Water's own name for it
Clanfield STW
Site reference
TWL00103 · permit CSSC.1001
Coordinates
51.71423, -1.58166

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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The alert repeats the monitor's status: whether the overflow is discharging, not how much or why. It can only tell you about a discharge that starts after you turn it on.

Concerned about this overflow?

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Write to the MP

The Environment Agency's return places this overflow in the Witney constituency. An MP can ask the company and the regulator questions on a constituent's behalf. These words carry the official figures; change them as you like.

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Live status: © Thames 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. Spill-event history: Thames Water open data (its discharge alerts), © Thames Water Utilities Limited, used under its open data terms (https://data.thameswater.co.uk/s/terms-of-service). Changed by FloodRadar: each Start alert is paired with the Stop that follows it to make one discharge period; monitor-offline alerts are left out. Discharges marked "via Top of the Poops", 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.