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Bridgwater was polluted by sewage 661 times in 2023
lasting 3,809 hours

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Totals for Bridgwater in 2023
29 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
661 sewage dumps
3,809 h duration
That's 5.29 months. On average 1.8 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bridgwater 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 0 of the total 30 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 Cannington Brook CANNINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 105 1,201 99.9
Wessex Water Petherton Stream NORTH PETHERTON WRC 80 602 99.9
Wessex Water Fiddington Brook NETHER STOWEY WATER RECYCLING CENTR 47 471 99.9
Wessex Water River Parrett Estuary COMBWICH PUMPING STATION 54 452 100
Wessex Water Fiddington Book FIDDINGTON PS 27 170 96.7
Wessex Water Cannington Brook SPAXTON PUMPING STATION 13 150 100
Wessex Water Cannington Brook MARSH LANE CSO 31 90 99.8
Wessex Water Cossington Brook BROOKHAYES CSO 71 86 96.2
Wessex Water Brick Yard Rhyne V Sws PAWLETT PUMPING STATION 9 71 99.9
Wessex Water River Parrett TAUNTON ROAD PS 34 62 100
Wessex Water River Brue HIGHBRIDGE PUMPING STATION 33 57 99
Wessex Water Sowy River SUMMERHEDGE PUMPING STATION 9 57 99.6
Wessex Water River Parrett CHILTON STREET(SALTLANDS) PS 37 46 100
Wessex Water Huntspill River MEADOW FARM PUMPING STATION 7 43 98.5
Wessex Water King Sedgemoors Drain STAWELL PUMPING STATION 11 42 100
Wessex Water Unknown SLOWAY LANE PUMPING STATION 7 36 100
Wessex Water River Parrett EAST QUAY PUMPING STATION 39 36 100
Wessex Water Crowpill Rhyne WEMBDON COMMON PUMPING STATION 6 25 100
Wessex Water Sowy River MIDDLEZOY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 23 100
Wessex Water River Parrett BRISTOL ROAD S P STN 12 23 100
Wessex Water River Parrett COLLEY LANE PUMPING STATION 14 21 100
Wessex Water River Parrett WEST QUAY PS 2 11 100
Wessex Water River Tone CHURCH ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 5 94.3
Wessex Water Parrett Estuary VICARAGE LANE PUMPING STATION 1 5 99.9
Wessex Water Un-Named PURITON SPS 3 4 99.9
Wessex Water Bath Road Rhyne BATH ROAD PS 1 3 99.8
Wessex Water Pigrhyne SCHOOL ROAD CSO 1 3 100
Wessex Water Hamrod Rhyne BROADSTONE PS 1 1 99.9
Wessex Water A Local Ditch ST ANDREWS SCHOOL COMBINED SEWER 1 1 100
Wessex Water River Parrett BLAKE GARDENS PS 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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