Eign Road Hereford Overflow

Storm overflow run by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, discharging into Yazor Brook.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Hereford and South Herefordshire constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (38 days ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 14 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
1spill
2.5 h discharging on 2 days · live feed since 23 Sep, not yet official
2025 official
3spills
6.5 h · −87% on 2024
Rank in Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
#93
of 119 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 22.8 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 the live feed since 23 September (when we began keeping every discharge it reports) — so it can only be lower than the full year. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
33 spills · 36 h
2022
38 spills · 29 h
2023
17 spills · 7.5 h
2024
23 spills · 91 hmonitor 99.3%
2025
3 spills · 6.5 hmonitor 100%
2026since 23 Sep
1 spill · 2.5 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 Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Long-term review
Not Applicable - Ongoing investigation
Investigation
No investigation activity in reporting period
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2020
Water body
Yazor Bk - source to conf R Wye

"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

130 discharge periods since 20 Jan 2021. 129 of them come from Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2021 – Nov 2025); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

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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 142 raw blocks were merged into 130 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Hereford, 2.7 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
Hereford - Ledbury Road (Yazor Brook) · 0.6 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
County of Herefordshire
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's own name for it
Eign Road CSO, Hereford
Site reference
DCW00004 · permit Unpermitted
Coordinates
52.04962, -2.69824

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One message when the company's monitor reports a new discharge here. At most one every 6 hours.

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Live status: © Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, from its Storm Overflow Map. 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: © Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water's published EDM start/stop records. Annual figures: The Rivers Trust EDM compilation, © Dŵr Cymru/Welsh Water, Open Government Licence. 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.