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Storm overflow run by Thames Water, discharging into N/a.

Storm overflow on the sewer network Stevenage constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (6 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
2spills
1.8 h discharging on 2 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
31spills
225 h · +24% on 2024
Rank in Thames Water
#102
of 574 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 34.6 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 Thames Water's monitor log and the live feed. The official figure is published next spring.

2024
25 spills · 86 hmonitor 92.9%
2025
31 spills · 225 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
2 spills · 1.8 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 Thames Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
Not asset maintenance - Hydraulic capacity
Investigation
Env Act (SODRP) investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2019
Water body
Upper Lee Chalk

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

68 discharge periods since 16 Nov 2022. 68 of them come from Thames Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (from its open data service, Nov 2022 – Oct 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 68)
StartedEndedDischarge time
3 h 45 min
1 h 15 min
1 d 0 h
2 d 2 h
30 min
1 h 15 min
2 h 0 min
45 min
12 h 45 min
1 h 0 min
1 h 30 min
1 h 0 min
30 min
30 min
1 h 0 min
2 h 30 min
2 h 15 min
30 min
45 min
30 min
2 h 0 min
7 h 15 min
45 min
45 min
45 min
30 min
30 min
1 d 4 h
1 d 14 h
5 h 45 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 71 raw blocks were merged into 68 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Thames Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 3 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 3 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Monitor offline—
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr St Paul's Walden, 4.0 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
Fulling Mill (River Mimram) · 1.2 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
North Hertfordshire District
Thames Water's own name for it
Codicote CSO (Rabley Heath Road, Codicote) (Gwa Site)
Site reference
TWL00108 · permit Unpermitted
Coordinates
51.84773, -0.22923

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

The Environment Agency's return places this overflow in the Stevenage constituency. An MP can ask the company and the regulator questions on a constituent's behalf. These words carry the official figures; change them as you like.

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Live status: © Thames 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. Spill-event history: Thames Water open data (its discharge alerts), © Thames Water Utilities Limited, used under its open data terms (https://data.thameswater.co.uk/s/terms-of-service). Changed by FloodRadar: each Start alert is paired with the Stop that follows it to make one discharge period; monitor-offline alerts are left out. 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.