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Storm overflow run by Wessex Water, discharging into Trib Of Wellow Brook.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Wells and Mendip Hills constituency
Right now
Discharging now
Since on · 1 h 5 min so far.
Times are UK time. Company feed updated just now

"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
37spills
at least 26 h discharging on 39 days · counted by us, not yet official · 1 discharge whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
30spills
26 h · +3% on 2024
Rank in Wessex Water
#294
of 1,285 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
90.2% working
Long-term average 32.0 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 Wessex 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
33 spills · 25 h
2022
15 spills · 5.3 hmonitor 69.7%
2023
31 spills · 20 hmonitor 75.5%
2024
29 spills · 57 hmonitor 51.0%
2025
30 spills · 26 hmonitor 90.2%
2026so far
37 spills · at least 26 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 Wessex Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
High spill threshold not met
Long-term review
Performance - SW Infiltration
Investigation
Env Act (SODRP) investigation ongoing, UWWTR investigation ongoing
Improvement work
Env Act (SODRP) improvement ongoing
Monitored since
2019
Water body
Wellow Bk - source to conf Snails Bk

"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

344 discharge periods since 6 Jan 2020, 1 still open, 1 whose end the feed never gave. 333 of them come from Wessex Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2020 – Aug 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 344)
StartedEndedDischarge time
4 min
14 min
24 min
6 min
2 min
26 min
10 min
2 min
16 min
1 h 20 min
30 min
2 min
24 min
36 min
4 min
38 min
16 min
10 min
2 min
20 min
10 min
26 min
14 min
42 min
12 min
2 h 14 min
14 min
14 min
32 min
26 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 519 raw blocks were merged into 344 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Wessex Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 17 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 17 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Not discharging →
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Litton, 4.6 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
Welton (Wellow Brook) · 4.2 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Somerset
Wessex Water's own name for it
Ston Easton Home Farm So
Site reference
WXW00559 · permit 010772
Coordinates
51.28481, -2.54350

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?

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Write to the MP

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Live status: © Wessex 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.