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

Storm overflow on the sewer network Huddersfield constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (14 days ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 1 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
32spills
at least 102 h discharging on 37 days · counted by us, not yet official · 1 discharge whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
49spills
86 h · +20% on 2024
Rank in Yorkshire Water
#312
of 2,161 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 27.8 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 Yorkshire Water's monitor log and the live feed. 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.

2020
17 spills · 19 hmonitor 100%
2021
24 spills · 16 hmonitor 99.8%
2022
19 spills · 17 hmonitor 99.7%
2023
17 spills · 21 hmonitor 95.0%
2024
41 spills · 66 hmonitor 99.6%
2025
49 spills · 86 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
32 spills · at least 102 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.

2020 was the first year every company reported for all its monitored overflows, with monitors still being installed through the year: a 2020 figure covers the share of the year the monitor was working, shown beside it, and an overflow with no 2020 bar had no return that year.

Other outlets here

Yorkshire Water runs 4 other overflows within 300 m that also discharge into River Colne. They share the sewer and the storm, so one outlet's figures are only part of what reaches the water.

200m Ben Shaws CSOYWS00069Ben Shaws/CSO 18spills in 2025
200m Fartown Bradford Road CSOYWS00159Fartown Bradford Rd/CSO 17spills in 2025
213m Thistle Street CSOYWS01858Thistle Street/CSO 117spills in 2025
217m Anchor Street CSOYWS02066Anchor Street/CSO 34spills in 2025

This overflow: 49 spills in 2025. Distances are between the published outlet points.

Downstream of this overflow

The next gauge downstream that the river map places is ICI Colne (River Colne), 2.2 km along the river.

Water-sampling points downstream

The nearest Environment Agency sampling points the river map places below ICI Colne. Points between this overflow and that gauge cannot be put in order with it on the map, so they are not listed.

A sample is dated: it is not the river now, and its results are on its own page. A sample taken after a discharge does not show that the discharge caused what was measured. Samples: Environment Agency Water Quality Archive, © Environment Agency and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.

A river gauge measures the level of the river; it does not measure this overflow's discharge, and a spill does not by itself explain a change there. Traced on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-10), which leaves out many small channels.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

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
Env Act (SODRP) investigation completed, UWWTR investigation completed, Operational investigation completed
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2020
Water body
River Colne from River Holme to River Calder

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

180 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2024, 1 whose end the feed never gave. 165 of them come from Yorkshire Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2024 – Aug 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 180)
StartedEndedDischarge time
29 min
28 min
13 min
10 h 29 min
45 min
2 h 43 min
59 min
11 min
13 min
15 min
5 h 59 min
15 min
1 h 59 min
11 h 42 min
15 min
7 h 59 min
6 h 13 min
8 h 11 min
15 min
2 h 29 min
6 h 59 min
7 h 12 min
13 h 57 min
1 h 0 min
5 h 38 min
15 min
1 h 30 min
45 min
1 h 45 min
1 h 30 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 255 raw blocks were merged into 180 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Look back by date

Discharge records held: from 1 Jan 2024.

Days run midnight to midnight, UK time, up to 366 days at a time. A discharge beside rain or a flood is a timing match, not proof of cause, and no volume is published.

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Yorkshire Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 11 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 11 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Not discharging →
Not discharging →
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Farnley Tyas, 5.2 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
Huddersfield Willow Lane (Grimescar Dike) · 1.0 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Kirklees District (B)
Site reference
YWS02072 · permit WRA9178
Coordinates
53.65234, -1.77221

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?

Report pollution you can see or smell to the regulator straight away; the company handles complaints about the overflow itself.

Write to the MP

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

The link opens Parliament's own "Find your MP", which gives the MP's name and how to write to them. FloodRadar sends nothing and keeps nothing you write. Check the constituency against your own address: an MP acts only for people who live in it.

Live status: © Yorkshire 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. Storm-overflow spill events: © the respective water company, published on Stream (data.streamwaterdata.co.uk) under CC BY 4.0. Discharges marked "EA start/stop data": Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow start/stop detailed data, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0; the companies' monitor records as the EA received them, not verified by the EA. 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.