Maiden Bradley WwTW

Storm overflow run by Wessex Water, discharging into Groundwater.

Inlet storm overflow at sewage treatment works - with treatment South West Wiltshire constituency
Right now
No live feed
Wessex 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
66spills
at least 106 h discharging on 66 days · counted by us, not yet official · 40 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
26spills
45 h · +1,200% on 2024
Rank in Wessex Water
#342
of 1,285 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 54.0 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. 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
no data
2022
67 spills · 118 hmonitor 99.9%
2023
91 spills · 195 hmonitor 100%
2024
2 spills · 3.8 hmonitor 99.7%
2025
26 spills · 45 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
66 spills · at least 106 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
Not asset maintenance - Hydraulic capacity
Investigation
Env Act (SODRP) investigation ongoing, UWWTR investigation ongoing
Improvement work
Env Act (SODRP) improvement ongoing
Monitored since
2020
Water body
Wylye (Headwaters)

"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

170 discharge periods since 3 Oct 2025, 40 whose end the feed never gave. 126 of them come from Wessex Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Oct 2025 – Aug 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 170)
StartedEndedDischarge time
30 min
1 h 17 min
3 h 10 min
not captured, before not captured
7 min
2 h 32 min
4 min
1 min
not captured, before not captured
48 min
not captured, before 2 min
3 min
not captured, before not captured
24 min
2 min
not captured, before 4 min
not captured, before 3 min
1 h 3 min
2 min
33 min
14 min
not captured, before not captured
not captured, before not captured
not captured, before not captured
4 min
10 min
1 min
1 min
1 min
51 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 499 raw blocks were merged into 170 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr North Brewham, 8.5 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
Brixton Deverill (River Wylye) · 4.7 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Wiltshire
Wessex Water's own name for it
Maiden Bradley Inlet
Site reference
WXW00673 · permit 400608
Coordinates
51.14575, -2.27216

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

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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. 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.