Bath was polluted by sewage 2,960 times in 2024
lasting 12,636 hours - that's 1.46 years!

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Live data for Bath in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:45 PM) there has been 5,510 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.64 years!
Totals for Bath in 2024
91 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
2,960 sewage dumps
12,636 h duration
That's 1.46 years! On average 8.1 times a day
Change Over Time
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Waterways in Bath
Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Bath, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bath in 2024. 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 99 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 %
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws LONDON ROAD WEST CSO 116 1,373 99.8
Wessex Water St. Catherines Brook STAMBRIDGE CSO 80 763 99.3
Wessex Water River Avon LONDON ROAD BUS DEPOT CSO 66 725 97.3
Wessex Water River Avon WINDSOR COURT CSO 45 657 100
Wessex Water River Avon BROAD QUAY CSO 55 498 99.5
Wessex Water River Avon MIDLAND ROAD PUMPING STATION 47 444 100
Wessex Water River Avon WESTON LOCK RETAIL PARK 38 439 100
Wessex Water River Avon RECREATION GROUND CSO 87 425 99.7
Wessex Water River Avon BRASSMILL LANE (EAST) CSO 48 408 99.5
Wessex Water River Avon LOWER BRISTOL ROAD 58 395 99.3
Wessex Water River Avon ROSSITER ROAD CSO 36 389 94.3
Wessex Water River Avon GREEN PARK SYPHON INLET CSO 35 366 98.1
Wessex Water River Avon PARADE GARDENS STORM OVERFLOW 34 362 99.6
Wessex Water River Avon SOUTH PARADE CSO 41 351 100
Wessex Water River Avon OPPOSITE NO 1, SPRING GARDENS ROAD 32 325 94.6
Wessex Water River Avon MILL LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 41 315 91.6
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws TRAFALGAR ROAD CSO 62 269 99.6
Wessex Water River Avon OSTLING LANE CSO 68 251 99.6
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws AVON STREET CSO 75 242 100
Wessex Water River Avon TOWPATH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 48 242 100
Wessex Water River Avon CHATHAM ROW CSO 60 222 99.2
Wessex Water River Avon ROCKCLIFFE ROAD CSO 44 215 99.3
Wessex Water River Avon STATION ROAD CSO 29 213 98.9
Wessex Water River Avon SCOUT SITE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 18 183 93.9
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws BRASSMILL LANE (EAST) CSO 27 146 100
Wessex Water River Avon LADYMEAD HOUSE CSO 49 139 99.3
Wessex Water River Avon ENTRY HILL GARDENS CSO 67 101 99.5
Wessex Water River Avon ST JOHNS SCHOOL CSO 42 94 100
Wessex Water River Avon WALCOT TERRACE CSO 29 90 99.5
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws RAILWAY PLACE CSO 18 88 90.7
Wessex Water Lam Brook MONTAGUE HOUSE CSO 31 82 99.8
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws OLDFIELD LANE CSO 62 79 98.1
Wessex Water River Avon MOORLAND ROAD CSO 49 78 99
Wessex Water River Avon LOWER BRISTOL ROAD 12 78 100
Wessex Water River Avon ENGLISHCOMBE LANE CSO 55 70 92.5
Wessex Water River Avon CATTLE MARKET 25 70 99.7
Wessex Water River Avon HORTON HOUSE CSO 33 69 99.1
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws LANSDOWN LANE COMBINED SEWER O'FLOW 35 67 99.7
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws BEWDLEY ROAD CSO 31 65 95.5
Wessex Water River Avon WALCOT STREET COMBINED SEWER OF 16 64 99.7
Wessex Water River Avon ALDRIDGES CSO 33 63 97
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws PRIOR PARK ROAD CSO 47 63 91.7
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws SOUTHGATE STREET CSO 31 61 99.8
Wessex Water River Avon NEWBRIDGE ROAD CSO 54 61 99.9
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws LOCKSBROOK ROAD CSO 25 59 79.8
Wessex Water River Avon WIDCOMBE BAPTIST CHURCH CSO 44 59 99.4
Wessex Water River Avon UPPER BRISTOL ROAD CSO 57 57 99.9
Wessex Water River Avon ROCKCLIFFE AVENUE CSO 6 55 99.1
Wessex Water Lam Brook J HUGHES COTTAGE CSO 20 51 99.5
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws BELLOTTS ROAD CSO 42 48 99.9
Wessex Water River Bristol Avon MILL HOUSE 30 48 99.6
Wessex Water Lam Brook Via Sws LARKHALL TERRACE CSO 36 44 99.6
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws BLOOMFIELD ROAD CSO 44 43 90.3
Wessex Water River Avon GRAND PARADE CSO 5 40 99.1
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws HISCOCKS DRIVE CSO 39 35 99.3
Wessex Water River Avon CANAL TERRACE CSO 36 31 99.5
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws WESTMORELAND ROAD CSO 24 29 99.1
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws BECKHAMPTON ROAD CSO 39 29 89.9
Wessex Water River Avon WELLSWAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 46 28 93.4
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws FOX HILL WOODLANDS COTTAGE CSO 42 27 99.7
Wessex Water Horsecombe Brook SUMMER LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 37 26 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws LUCKLANDS ROAD COMBINED SEWER OF 30 23 99.8
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws CHURCHILL BRIDGE ISLAND CSO 38 21 98.6
Wessex Water River Avon GROVE STREET CSO 3 20 99.2
Wessex Water River Avon FUNERAL DIRECTORS CSO 26 12 99.2
Wessex Water River Avon BATHEASTON GARDENS CSO 5 12 99.5
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws LYNCOMBE VALE CSO 33 11 99.3
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws LYNCOMBE VALE CSO 27 11 99.5
Wessex Water River Avon 11 ST JOHN'S ROAD CSO 7 10 99.4
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws FIELDINGS ROAD CSO 24 9 99.4
Wessex Water River Avon RUSH HILL CSO 31 9 99.4
Wessex Water River Avon WEIRSIDE COURT CSO 14 7 99.1
Wessex Water River Avon CLEVELAND BRIDGE CSO 16 7 83.4
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws SOUTHLANDS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 6 99.5
Wessex Water River Avon ST JOHN'S ROAD CSO 1 4 69.7
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws 24 TO 39 HAZEL GROVE 17 4 99.2
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws DORSET CLOSE CSO 12 3 99.5
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws PRIOR PARK ROAD CSO 14 3 99.2
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws WIDCOMBE RISE CSO 15 2 99.3
Wessex Water River Avon HUNGERFORD ROAD CSO 11 2 99.6
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws ENGLISHCOMBE LANE CSO 13 1 99.1
Wessex Water River Avon LYMORE GARDENS CSO 2 1 99.6
Wessex Water River Avon WELLSWAY 8 1 99.2
Wessex Water Lam Brook Via Sws BAYTREE ALLOTMENTS CSO 11 0 82.4
Wessex Water A Culverted River Avon WELLSWAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 7 0 99.8
Wessex Water River Avon LOOP ROAD CSO 3 0 98.1
Wessex Water Kennet WARMINSTER ROAD CSO 1 0 99
Wessex Water River Avon CSO ADJACENT TO 22-23 HAZEL GROVE 4 0 99.4
Wessex Water River Avon BRASSMILL LANE CSO 1 0 99.4
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws WHITE WAY ROAD CSO 1 0 99.2
Wessex Water River Avon RUSH HILL 1 0 99.2
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws DARTMOUTH AVENUE CSO 0 0 99.8
Wessex Water River Avon SOUTHDOWN ROAD CSO 0 0 99.1
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sww MILLMEAD ROAD CSO 0 0 99.3
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws MOUNT ROAD CSO 0 0 99.3
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws 223 HAYCOMBE DRIVE 0 0 99.6
Wessex Water Lam Brook Via Sws FAIRFIELD AVENUE CSO 0 0 99.6
Wessex Water River Avon REAR OF 34 WELLSWAY 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws BLOOMFIELD RD JUNCTION CSO 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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