Braintree was polluted by sewage 421 times in 2023
lasting 3,699 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Braintree in 2023

21 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

421 sewage dumps
3,699 h duration

That's 5.14 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Braintree

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Braintree 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 6 of the total 32 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 6 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Anglian Water	Stisted Brook River Blackwater	STISTED STW	49	795	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	EARLS COLNE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	37	566	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	HALSTEAD (LANGLEY) WRC	59	504	100
Anglian Water	Bumpstead Brook	STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD PS-NOS.1,2,3 & 4	33	345	75
Anglian Water	Bumpstead Brook River Stour N	STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD STW	18	299	100
Anglian Water	Bourne Brook River Colne	GOSFIELD STW	27	279	100
Anglian Water	River Brain	BRAINTREE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	33	224	99.55
Anglian Water	Toppesfield Brook River Colne	TOPPESFIELD STW	36	148	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	GREAT YELDHAM - POOLE STREET CSO	19	139	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	SIBLE HEDINGHAM STW	23	116	100
Anglian Water	River Blackwater	BOCKING WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	8	78	100
Anglian Water	River Brain	BRAINTREE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	27	76	98.75
Anglian Water	River Pant	WETHERSFIELD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	4	39	25.2
Anglian Water	River Stour	BURES HAMLET PS	5	33	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	CASTLE HEDINGHAM - QUEEN ST CSO	4	21	95.9
Anglian Water	River Colne	SIBLE HEDINGHAM - ALDERFORD ST CSO	9	13	97.4
Anglian Water	River Colne	EARLS COLNE CHURCH HILL #3 CSO	19	6	100
Anglian Water	Pods Brook River Brain	RAYNE STW	3	4	6.8
Anglian Water	Pods Brook	RAYNE TERMINAL PUMPING STATION	1	1	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	EARLS COLNE ST ANDREWS CHURCH CSO	5	1	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	WATER SUPPLY BOREHOLES AT PARSONAGE	2	1	100
Anglian Water	Culverted River Blackwate	BRADFORD STREET FOUL SEWER	0	0	0
Anglian Water	Unknown	ROSE HILL	0	0	0
Anglian Water	River Colne	EARLS COLNE	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Brain	SSO HOPPIT BRIDGE	0	0	0
Anglian Water	River Brain	ROSE HILL	0	0	0
Anglian Water	River Brain	SSO CLAPBRIDGE FARM	0	0	0
Anglian Water	River Brain	ROSE HILL	0	0	72.5
Anglian Water	River Pant	CHURCH STREET CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Brain	NOTLEY ROAD CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Blackwater	BRADFORD BRIDGE PS	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Unknown	GROVE FIELD	0	0	0

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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