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Basildon and Billericay was polluted by sewage 85 times in 2023
lasting 596 hours

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Totals for Basildon and Billericay in 2023
5 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
85 sewage dumps
596 h duration
That's 24.83 days. 1.6 times a week, on average
Change Over Time
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Waterways in Basildon and Billericay

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Basildon and Billericay in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 0 of the total 6 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water River Crouch BILLERICAY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 40 335 100
Anglian Water River Crouch WICKFORD PS 16 170 100
Anglian Water River Crouch BILLERICAY P.S. ST AGNES ROAD 17 59 100
Anglian Water Outwood Common R Crouch OUTWOOD COMMON CSO 10 27 100
Anglian Water . SSO BARLEYLAND BASILDON 2 4 100
Anglian Water . SSO BARLEYLAND BASILDON 0 0 100

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

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