Hemingbrough Wpc Works

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

Storm tank at sewage treatment works Selby constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (174 days ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 6 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
20spills
at least 180 h discharging on 21 days · counted by us, not yet official · 2 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
26spills
113 h · same as 2024
Rank in Yorkshire Water
#785
of 2,161 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 23.3 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.

2021
34 spills · 382 hmonitor 99.5%
2022
16 spills · 30 hmonitor 99.9%
2023
37 spills · 113 hmonitor 100%
2024
26 spills · 121 hmonitor 100%
2025
26 spills · 113 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
20 spills · at least 180 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 Yorkshire Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Long-term review
Not asset maintenance - hydraulic capacity
Investigation
UWWTR investigation ongoing, Operational investigation completed
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2020
Water body
Ouse from R Wharfe to Upper Humber

"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

100 discharge periods since 22 Jan 2026, 2 whose end the feed never gave. 17 of them come from Yorkshire Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2026 – May 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 100)
StartedEndedDischarge time
1 min
1 min
1 min
21 h 40 min
2 min
20 h 42 min
2 min
2 min
3 min
1 min
1 min
1 min
2 min
1 min
3 min
2 min
2 min
1 min
2 min
18 h 3 min
2 min
3 min
5 min
2 min
10 h 30 min
2 min
1 min
1 min
1 min
1 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 373 raw blocks were merged into 100 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

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 : 1 state. 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 1 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Not discharging →

Where it is

Nearest river gauge
Barmby (River Derwent) · 1.8 km
Council area
North Yorkshire
Yorkshire Water's own name for it
Hemingbrough/No 2 STW
Site reference
YWS00390 · permit 27/24/0168
Coordinates
53.76242, -0.98679

Tell me when this overflow discharges

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Write to the MP

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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 "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.