Braintree

Polluted by sewage 187 times in 2025 lasting 716 hours

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Live data for Braintree in 2026

So far this year (as of 25 Oct 2026, 15:15) there has been 3,920 hours of sewage overflows, from 50 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Sewage without rain in Braintree

On 20 occasions since December 2024, no rain fell anywhere in Braintree for days — and its CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s discharged anyway.

25 Apr - 26 Apr 2026 1 at once · 48h 22 Apr - 23 Apr 2026 1 at once · 48h 25 Dec - 26 Dec 2025 1 at once · 36h

Totals for Braintree in 2025

17 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
187 sewage dumps
716 hours duration
Sewage pollution map of Braintree
Sewage pollution map of Braintree: 187 spills in 2025, lasting 716 hours, by Anglian Water
That's 4.26 weeks. 3.6 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Braintree in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water Toppesfield Brook River Colne TOPPESFIELD STW 40 144 86.5
Anglian Water River Blackwater BOCKING WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 8 127 100
Anglian Water Bumpstead Brook River Stour N STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD STW 20 116 99.2
Anglian Water River Brain BRAINTREE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 54 92 66.85
Anglian Water Bumpstead Brook STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD PS-NOS.1,2,3 & 4 14 89 100
Anglian Water River Colne GREAT YELDHAM - POOLE STREET CSO 4 40 100
Anglian Water River Colne SIBLE HEDINGHAM STW 12 38 100
Anglian Water Bourne Brook River Colne GOSFIELD STW 3 20 100
Anglian Water River Pant WETHERSFIELD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 3 10 100
Anglian Water River Colne WATER SUPPLY BOREHOLES AT PARSONAGE 7 10 97.3
Anglian Water River Brain BRAINTREE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 8 8 99.85
Anglian Water Pods Brook River Brain RAYNE STW 6 7 100
Anglian Water River Colne CASTLE HEDINGHAM - QUEEN ST CSO 2 3 100
Anglian Water River Stour BURES HAMLET PS 1 2 100
Anglian Water River Pant GREAT SAMPFORD STW 3 1 99.5
Anglian Water Stebbing Brook River Chelmer N FELSTED(LR CHELMER) STW 1 1 100
Anglian Water River Colne SIBLE HEDINGHAM - ALDERFORD ST CSO 1 0 99.2
Anglian Water River Blackwater BRADFORD BRIDGE PS 0 0 97.3
Anglian Water River Pant CHURCH STREET CSO 0 0 99.5
Anglian Water River Brain NOTLEY ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water Pods Brook RAYNE TERMINAL PUMPING STATION 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. 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.

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