Langthorne STW

Storm overflow run by Yorkshire Water, discharging into Cobshaw Dyke.

Inlet storm overflow at sewage treatment works Thirsk and Malton constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (12 hours ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 3 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
60spills
at least 928 h discharging on 61 days · counted by us, not yet official · 3 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
101spills
1,694 h · −64% on 2024
Rank in Yorkshire Water
#26
of 2,161 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 175.3 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
121 spills · 1,714 hmonitor 99.1%
2022
146 spills · 1,859 hmonitor 99.7%
2023
259 spills · 5,186 hmonitor 98.7%
2024
282 spills · 5,128 hmonitor 100%
2025
101 spills · 1,694 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
60 spills · at least 928 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
Not asset maintenance - hydraulic capacity
Investigation
UWWTR investigation ongoing, Operational investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2020
Water body
Scurf Beck from Source to Bedale Beck

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

44 discharge periods since 11 Jan 2026, 3 whose end the feed never gave. 25 of them come from Yorkshire Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jan 2026 – Aug 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 44)
StartedEndedDischarge time
1 h 45 min
2 h 19 min
16 min
4 h 32 min
30 min
1 h 23 min
10 h 35 min
not captured, before not captured
0 min
not captured, before 9 h 30 min
6 min
15 min
16 min
54 min
1 h 0 min
48 min
2 min
16 h 35 min
2 min
1 min
1 d 6 h
2 h 13 min
2 min
1 d 6 h
4 d 11 h
15 d 22 h
20 h 30 min
6 d 13 h
13 min
3 d 20 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 93 raw blocks were merged into 44 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 : 7 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 7 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
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 Little Crakehall, 2.4 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
Leeming (Bedale Beck) · 4.9 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
North Yorkshire
Yorkshire Water's own name for it
Langthorne/No 2 STW
Site reference
YWS00381 · permit 27/23/0305
Coordinates
54.32051, -1.60148

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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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.