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Braintree - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,649 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 2,428 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Braintree so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 1,107 hours , 1,697 offline
Feb - 1,486 hours , 672 offline
Mar - 54 hours , 58 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Anglian Water BOCKING STW River Blackwater 32 673 h 15m -
Anglian Water Steeple Bumpstead Sewage Treatment Works Bumpstead Brook River Stour N 39 476 h 26m -
Anglian Water STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD-LILLEY TPS Bumpstead Brook 22 394 h -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE STW River Brain 18 267 h 36m -
Anglian Water STURMER-KEDINGTON RD TPS Bumpstead Brook 14 185 h 13m -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE STW River Brain 14 170 h 50m -
Anglian Water TOPPESFIELD STW Toppesfield Brook River Colne 22 145 h 35m -
Anglian Water GOSFIELD STW Bourne Brook River Colne 9 102 h 43m -
Anglian Water Felsted Sewage Treatment Works Stebbing Brook River Chelmer N 5 69 h 14m -
Anglian Water RAYNE STW Pods Brook River Brain 7 49 h 15m -
Anglian Water Wethersfield Sewage Treatment Works River Pant 7 42 h 8m -
Anglian Water CASTLE HEDINGHAM-QUEEN ST OV River Colne 2 24 h 15m -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE-NOTLEY RD SP River Brain 6 22 h 39m -
Anglian Water STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD-BLOIS RD TPS Bumpstead Brook 4 15 h 647 h
Anglian Water HALSTEAD-PARSONS BRIDGE NO 2 River Colne 4 7 h 44m -
Anglian Water Braintree-Skitts Mill Outlet B River Brain 4 3 h 8m 306 h
Anglian Water GT YELDHAM-POOLE ST SM River Colne 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Sible Hedingham -Alderford Street CSO River Colne 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Sible Hedingham -Alderford Street CSO River Colne 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Steeple Bumpstead Sewage Treatment Works Bumpstead Brook River Stour N 0 0 h -
Anglian Water STURMER-KEDINGTON RD TPS Bumpstead Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water HALSTEAD-PARSONS BRIDGE NO 2 River Colne 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Braintree-Skitts Mill Outlet B River Brain 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Wethersfield Sewage Treatment Works River Pant 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Braintree-Rose Hill CSO River Brain 0 0 h -
Anglian Water RAYNE-TPS Pods Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BURES HAMLET-SP River Stour 0 0 h -
Anglian Water GOSFIELD STW Bourne Brook River Colne 0 0 h -
Anglian Water GT YELDHAM-POOLE ST SM River Colne 0 0 h 1,474 h
Anglian Water RAYNE-TPS Pods Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BOCKING-BRADFORD BRG (NEW) TPS River Blackwater 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE STW River Brain 0 0 h -
Anglian Water GREAT SAMPFORD STW River Pant 0 0 h -
Anglian Water SIBLE HEDINGHAM STW River Colne 0 0 h -
Anglian Water SIBLE HEDINGHAM STW River Colne 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BURES HAMLET-SP River Stour 0 0 h -
Anglian Water GREAT SAMPFORD STW River Pant 0 0 h -
Anglian Water RAYNE STW Pods Brook River Brain 0 0 h -
Anglian Water TOPPESFIELD STW Toppesfield Brook River Colne 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BOCKING STW River Blackwater 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE-NOTLEY RD CSO River Brain 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE-NOTLEY RD CSO River Brain 0 0 h -
Anglian Water STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD-LILLEY TPS Bumpstead Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Felsted Sewage Treatment Works Stebbing Brook River Chelmer N 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE-NOTLEY RD SP River Brain 0 0 h -
Anglian Water STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD-BLOIS RD TPS Bumpstead Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BOCKING-CHURCH STREET SSO River Pant 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BOCKING-BRADFORD BRG (NEW) TPS River Blackwater 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE STW River Brain 0 0 h -
Anglian Water CASTLE HEDINGHAM-QUEEN ST OV River Colne 0 0 h -

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

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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