Trowbridge Road Pumping Station

Storm overflow run by Wessex Water, discharging into Trib Of Bitham Brook.

Storm discharge at pumping station South West Wiltshire constituency
Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (56 days ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated just now

"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
3.4 h discharging on 4 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
7spills
13 h · −75% on 2024
Rank in Wessex Water
#766
of 1,285 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
99.9% working
Long-term average 15.0 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 and the live feed. The official figure is published next spring.

2022
10 spills · 30 hmonitor 100%
2023
15 spills · 58 hmonitor 100%
2024
28 spills · 107 hmonitor 100%
2025
7 spills · 13 hmonitor 99.9%
2026so far
4 spills · 3.4 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
Data collection - Confirmed exceptional weather
Investigation
Operational investigation completed
Improvement work
Operational improvement completed
Monitored since
2022
Water body
Bitham Bk - source to conf Biss Bk

"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

74 discharge periods since 5 Jun 2022. 72 of them come from Wessex Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (published on Stream, Jun 2022 – Aug 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 74)
StartedEndedDischarge time
1 h 35 min
3 h 2 min
49 min
14 h 47 min
5 h 45 min
2 h 52 min
5 h 52 min
2 h 26 min
2 h 18 min
18 min
8 h 23 min
2 h 30 min
1 h 49 min
5 h 29 min
2 min
9 min
2 h 31 min
15 h 22 min
2 h 58 min
1 h 16 min
1 h 14 min
47 min
1 h 18 min
2 h 54 min
4 h 55 min
1 h 21 min
18 min
1 h 26 min
3 h 45 min
2 h 21 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 97 raw blocks were merged into 74 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Wessex 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 Dilton Marsh, 7.3 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
Trowbridge (River Biss) · 7.1 km
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Wiltshire
Wessex Water's own name for it
Bratton Trowbridge Road
Site reference
WXW01154 · permit 103243
Coordinates
51.27422, -2.13057

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 South West Wiltshire 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: © Wessex 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. 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.