Stone Hill Road Egerton WwTW

Storm overflow run by Southern Water, discharging into Tributary Of River Beult.

Storm tank at sewage treatment works Weald of Kent constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (261 days ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 1 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
4spills
24 h discharging on 4 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
21spills
210 h · −61% on 2024
Rank in Southern Water
#260
of 970 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 33.7 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 Southern Water's monitor log and the live feed. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
37 spills · 482 hmonitor 100%
2022
27 spills · 240 hmonitor 100%
2023
62 spills · 973 hmonitor 99.9%
2024
54 spills · 713 hmonitor 99.8%
2025
21 spills · 210 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
4 spills · 24 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 Southern 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, UWWTR investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2019
Water body
Sherway

"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

126 discharge periods since 12 Feb 2024. 126 of them come from Southern Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (from its Rivers and Seas Watch service, Feb 2024 – Feb 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 126)
StartedEndedDischarge time
5 min
2 h 27 min
6 min
11 min
16 min
4 min
13 min
4 min
3 min
4 min
7 min
4 min
6 min
3 min
16 min
1 h 45 min
1 h 57 min
3 min
4 min
12 min
4 min
6 min
4 min
12 min
8 min
48 min
51 min
6 min
22 min
4 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 169 raw blocks were merged into 126 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Southern 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 Maidstone, 3.9 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
BROWN MILL USGS · 5.5 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Ashford District (B)
Southern Water's own name for it
Stone Hill Road Egerton SSO - 115858
Site reference
SWS00833 · permit W00003
Coordinates
51.19118, 0.72645

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?

Report pollution you can see or smell to the regulator straight away; the company handles complaints about the overflow itself.

Write to the MP

The Environment Agency's return places this overflow in the Weald of Kent 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: © Southern 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: Southern Water's Rivers and Seas Watch release history (riversandseaswatch.southernwater.co.uk), © Southern Water. Shown by FloodRadar: only releases Southern Water marks Genuine and that have ended; those it marks Not Genuine or still has under review are left out. 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.