Braintree was polluted by sewage 644 times in 2024
lasting 3,760 hours

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Live data for Braintree in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:30 PM) there has been 575 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Braintree in 2024

18 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

644 sewage dumps
3,760 h duration

That's 5.22 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Braintree

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Braintree, 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 Braintree 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 21 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	Bumpstead Brook River Stour N	STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD STW	69	787	90.9
Anglian Water	Toppesfield Brook River Colne	TOPPESFIELD STW	78	709	99
Anglian Water	River Blackwater	BOCKING WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	34	542	100
Anglian Water	River Brain	BRAINTREE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	178	490	99.55
Anglian Water	Bumpstead Brook	STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD PS-NOS.1,2,3 & 4	27	305	100
Anglian Water	River Brain	BRAINTREE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	143	274	97.65
Anglian Water	River Colne	GREAT YELDHAM - POOLE STREET CSO	16	239	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	SIBLE HEDINGHAM STW	23	154	100
Anglian Water	Bourne Brook River Colne	GOSFIELD STW	22	110	100
Anglian Water	River Pant	WETHERSFIELD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	11	57	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	CASTLE HEDINGHAM - QUEEN ST CSO	9	41	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	WATER SUPPLY BOREHOLES AT PARSONAGE	19	31	98.4
Anglian Water	Pods Brook River Brain	RAYNE STW	4	7	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	SIBLE HEDINGHAM - ALDERFORD ST CSO	6	4	100
Anglian Water	River Stour	BURES HAMLET PS	1	2	100
Anglian Water	River Brain	NOTLEY ROAD CSO	1	0	100
Anglian Water	Pods Brook	RAYNE TERMINAL PUMPING STATION	1	0	100
Anglian Water	River Pant	GREAT SAMPFORD STW	2	0	100
Anglian Water	Stebbing Brook River Chelmer N	FELSTED(LR CHELMER) STW	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Pant	CHURCH STREET CSO	0	0	99.5
Anglian Water	River Blackwater	BRADFORD BRIDGE PS	0	0	99.7

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.

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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