Hardingstone Sewerage

Storm overflow run by Anglian Water, discharging into Nene - Conf Brampton Branch To Conf Ise.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Northampton South constituency
Right now
No live feed
Anglian 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.

2026 so far
11spills
0.6 h discharging on 11 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
12spills
20 h · −84% on 2024
Rank in Anglian Water
#436
of 1,428 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
98.2% working
Long-term average 54.4 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 Anglian Water's monitor log. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
64 spills · 134 hmonitor 100%
2022
46 spills · 77 hmonitor 100%
2023
76 spills · 137 hmonitor 100%
2024
74 spills · 262 hmonitor 100%
2025
12 spills · 20 hmonitor 98.2%
2026so far
11 spills · 0.6 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 Anglian Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Long-term review
Performance - Partial / no capacity due to blockage or restriction (e.g. roots / grid) - maintenance issue
Investigation
Env Act (SODRP) investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2021
Water body
Nene - conf Brampton Branch to conf Ise

"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

164 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2024. 154 of them come from Anglian Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2024 – Feb 2026); this overflow has no live feed, so nothing after that log is held. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 164)
StartedEndedDischarge time
19 min
14 min
4 min
9 min
9 min
4 min
7 h 30 min
15 min
30 min
1 h 30 min
1 h 30 min
1 h 15 min
1 h 30 min
5 h 15 min
4 h 30 min
15 min
6 h 0 min
15 min
15 min
15 min
15 min
30 min
15 min
1 h 15 min
45 min
30 min
1 h 15 min
2 h 15 min
2 h 45 min
3 h 15 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 320 raw blocks were merged into 164 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Quinton, 3.6 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
Bedford Road Sluice (River Nene) · 1.5 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
West Northamptonshire
Anglian Water's own name for it
Hardingstone Sewerage Scheme
Site reference
AWS00555 · permit AW5NF71
Coordinates
52.21754, -0.87872

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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. 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. 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.