Pangbourne WwTW

Storm overflow run by Thames Water, discharging into River Sul.

Inlet storm overflow at sewage treatment works - with treatment Reading West and Mid Berkshire constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (227 days ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 2 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
32spills
at least 785 h discharging on 32 days · counted by us, not yet official · 11 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
14spills
271 h · −80% on 2024
Rank in Thames Water
#198
of 574 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 15.7 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 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
15 spills · 332 h
2022
0 spills · 0 h
2023
5 spills · 83 h
2024
70 spills · 1,291 hmonitor 100%
2025
14 spills · 271 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
32 spills · at least 785 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
High spill threshold not met
Long-term review
Performance - GW inundation
Investigation
Env Act (SODRP) investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2018
Water body
Sulham Brook

"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

104 discharge periods since 27 Jan 2023, 11 whose end the feed never gave. 104 of them come from Thames Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (from its open data service, Jan 2023 – Mar 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 104)
StartedEndedDischarge time
7 h 48 min
4 min
6 h 36 min
16 h 52 min
1 d 1 h
2 d 17 h
1 h 42 min
22 min
18 h 10 min
1 h 8 min
58 min
5 d 3 h
8 min
4 min
5 h 32 min
13 d 16 h
8 min
12 min
3 h 2 min
17 h 4 min
4 min
3 h 42 min
1 h 12 min
4 min
22 min
4 min
6 min
10 min
18 min
44 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 318 raw blocks were merged into 104 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 : 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 →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Goring-on-Thames, 6.8 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
Pangbourne (River Pang) · 0.9 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
West Berkshire
Thames Water's own name for it
Pangbourne STW
Site reference
TWL00324 · permit CTCA.2077
Coordinates
51.48465, -1.07393

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

The Environment Agency's return places this overflow in the Reading West and Mid Berkshire 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.