Eydon Wastewater Treatment Works

Storm overflow run by Thames Water, discharging into Tributary Of River Cherwell.

Storm tank at sewage treatment works Daventry constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (1 day ago).
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
65spills
1,385 h discharging on 65 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
60spills
872 h · −54% on 2024
Rank in Thames Water
#29
of 574 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
99.4% working
Long-term average 67.1 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
73 spills · 801 hmonitor 94.9%
2022
45 spills · 429 hmonitor 97.6%
2023
101 spills · 1,444 hmonitor 99.5%
2024
131 spills · 2,192 hmonitor 99.2%
2025
60 spills · 872 hmonitor 99.4%
2026so far
65 spills · 1,385 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
Performance - SW Infiltration
Investigation
Env Act (SODRP) investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2018
Water body
Ashby Brook (Source to Cherwell)

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

467 discharge periods since 29 Dec 2022. 466 of them come from Thames Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (from its open data service, Dec 2022 – Aug 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 467)
StartedEndedDischarge time
10 d 14 h
14 d 15 h
13 h 15 min
12 h 0 min
4 d 15 h
1 h 15 min
19 h 15 min
4 d 5 h
1 d 0 h
3 d 14 h
6 d 11 h
2 d 7 h
11 h 30 min
1 d 3 h
1 d 4 h
2 d 6 h
12 h 30 min
1 d 9 h
4 h 0 min
11 h 15 min
1 d 5 h
3 d 5 h
7 h 15 min
14 h 0 min
5 h 0 min
2 h 45 min
13 h 30 min
14 h 0 min
1 d 18 h
3 d 8 h

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 488 raw blocks were merged into 467 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
Not discharging →
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Byfield, 3.2 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
Woodford Halse (River Cherwell) · 2.3 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
West Northamptonshire
Thames Water's own name for it
Eydon STW
Site reference
TWL00177 · permit CSSC.1370
Coordinates
52.14728, -1.20479

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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Concerned about this overflow?

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Write to the MP

The Environment Agency's return places this overflow in the Daventry 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.