Clapham Storm Relief Sewer

Storm overflow run by Thames Water, discharging into R.thames.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Vauxhall and Camberwell Green constituency
Right now
No live feed
Thames 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.

2024 official
34spills
385 h
Rank in Thames Water
#225
of 585 overflows by 2024 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2024
90.3% working
Long-term average 17.0 spills a year

Year by year

The Environment Agency's official annual returns, counted the EA's way (12/24-hour spills).

2024
34 spills · 385 hmonitor 90.3%
2025
no data

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.

Twin outlet

Thames Water runs another overflow within 300 m that also discharges into R.thames. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

35m Brixton And Clapham Sr CSOTWL00056Brixton Storm Relief Sewer 67spills in 2024

This overflow (Clapham Storm Relief Sewer, London): 34 spills in 2024. Distances are between the published outlet points. The names in brackets are Thames Water's own, from its return.

What the 2024 return says

From Thames Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Investigation
Env Act (SODRP) investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2020
Water body
THAMES MIDDLE

"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

We hold no discharge periods for this overflow: it has no live feed, and Thames Water has published no event-level log for it that we hold. The official annual figure above is the record to rely on.

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Greater London, 5.8 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
Westminster (Thames Tideway) · 1.6 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Lambeth London Boro
Thames Water's own name for it
Clapham Storm Relief Sewer, London
Site reference
TWL00104 · permit CSAB.0554
Coordinates
51.48672, -0.12572

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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. 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.