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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Mendip Hills - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 4,975 hours in 2025

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Totals for 2025

Sewage4,975 hours
Monitoring offline1 hours
Potential pollution0 hours
Storm overflows25

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Daily Data - when it rained, and when they spilled

Square = rainfall none → heavy
Drop = sewage minutes → all day
Potential pollution Monitoring offline
Jan - 844 hours
Feb - 401 hours , 0 offline
Mar - 8 hours
Apr - 17 hours
May - 0 hours
Jun - 1 hours , 1 offline
Jul - 0 hours
Aug - 2 hours
Sept - 149 hours
Oct - 27 hours , 0 offline
Nov - 864 hours
Dec - 2,658 hours

Storm overflows in and around Mendip Hills

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Wessex Water EAST HARPTREE STORM TANK River Chew 54 959h 15m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 52 946h 54m -
Wessex Water WINSCOMBE STORM TANK Lox Yeo River 39 655h 58m -
Wessex Water BUTCOMBE STORM TANK Congresbury Yeo And Butcombe 23 470h 58m -
Wessex Water UBLEY FROG LANE STORM TANK Congresbury Yeo, Lake 20 368h 42m -
Wessex Water EAST HARPTREE STORM TANK River Chew 47 332h 42m 0 h
Wessex Water UBLEY FROG LANE STORM TANK Congresbury Yeo, Lake 21 317h 21m -
Wessex Water BLAGDON STORM TANK Congresbury Yeo 18 205h 24m -
Wessex Water WINSCOMBE STORM TANK Lox Yeo River 16 183h 50m -
Wessex Water BLAGDON STORM TANK Congresbury Yeo 12 163h 12m -
Wessex Water BUTCOMBE STORM TANK Congresbury Yeo And Butcombe 9 130h 15m -
Wessex Water BISHOP SUTTON River Chew 21 66h 5m -
Wessex Water CHEDDAR FROGLANDS River Yeo 14 61h 22m -
Wessex Water BISHOP SUTTON River Chew 21 31h 5m 0 h
Wessex Water CROSS EAST Cross Rhyne 4 20h 52m -
Wessex Water WINSCOMBE INLET Lox Yeo River 3 17h 28m -
Wessex Water CROSS EAST Cross Rhyne 3 16h 29m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 2 9h 34m 1 h
Wessex Water CHEDDAR FROGLANDS River Yeo 11 8h 33m -
Wessex Water SANDFORD BATCH Towerhead Brook 3 5h 52m -
Wessex Water SANDFORD BATCH Towerhead Brook 3 3h 14m -
Wessex Water WOOKEY HOLE KENNEL BATCH / HIGH STREET River Axe Via Sws 2 0h 16m -
Wessex Water WINSCOMBE INLET Lox Yeo River 0 0h -
Wessex Water LOXTON SOUTH OF THE COACH HOUSE Axe Link Rhtne To River Yeo 0 0h -
Wessex Water LOXTON SOUTH OF THE COACH HOUSE Axe Link Rhtne To River Yeo 0 0h -

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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