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Bridgwater - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,430 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 2,343 hours , potential overflows 232 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Bridgwater for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 998 hours , 3 potential
Feb - 25 hours , 1 offline
Mar - 17 hours , 2 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 21 offline
May - 0 hours , 39 offline
Jun - 0 hours , 303 offline
Jul - 0 hours , 323 offline
Aug - 0 hours , 31 offline
Sept - 14 hours , 23 offline
Oct - 0 hours
Nov - 290 hours , 1,128 offline
Dec - 1,081 hours , 205 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Wessex Water CANNINGTON STORM TANK Cannington Brook 18 215 h 26m 229 h
Wessex Water CANNINGTON STORM TANK Cannington Brook 16 195 h 39m 263 h
Wessex Water NORTH PETHERTON STORM TANK Petherton Stream 15 173 h 26m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER CHILTON STREET SALTLANDS River Parrett 12 146 h 55m -
Wessex Water NETHER STOWEY STORM TANK Fiddington Brook 13 118 h 30m -
Wessex Water WESTON-SUPER-MARE BLACK ROCK WINDWHISTLE ROAD Axe Estuary 9 114 h 32m -
Wessex Water NETHER STOWEY STORM TANK Fiddington Brook 6 98 h 59m 2 h
Wessex Water COMBWICH QUAY ROAD River Parrett Estuary 14 98 h 10m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 12 98 h 1m 25 h
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 12 87 h 16m -
Wessex Water FIDDINGTON Fiddington Book 8 84 h 56m -
Wessex Water WEST HUNTSPILL SLOWAY LANE Unknown 6 81 h 30m -
Wessex Water CANNINGTON INLET Cannington Brook 5 69 h 30m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER EAST QUAY River Parrett 8 69 h 13m -
Wessex Water PAWLETT MAIN ROAD Brick Yard Rhyne V Sws 7 60 h 40m -
Wessex Water COSSINGTON BROOKHAYES Cossington Brook 20 59 h 14m -
Wessex Water NORTH PETHERTON STORM TANK Petherton Stream 7 58 h 54m -
Wessex Water CANNINGTON INLET Cannington Brook 6 49 h 38m -
Wessex Water FIDDINGTON Fiddington Book 9 49 h 20m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER BRISTOL ROAD River Parrett 14 48 h 15m -
Wessex Water SPAXTON Cannington Brook 5 44 h 14m -
Wessex Water WESTON-SUPER-MARE BLACK ROCK WINDWHISTLE ROAD Axe Estuary 5 43 h 51m -
Wessex Water SPAXTON Cannington Brook 5 42 h 15m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER TAUNTON ROAD River Parrett 6 38 h -
Wessex Water COSSINGTON BROOKHAYES Cossington Brook 11 35 h 32m -
Wessex Water COMBWICH QUAY ROAD River Parrett Estuary 4 34 h 1m 0 h
Wessex Water WOOLAVINGTON MEADOW FARM Huntspill River 5 31 h 54m -
Wessex Water CANNINGTON MARSH LANE Cannington Brook 12 29 h 22m -
Wessex Water PAWLETT MAIN ROAD Brick Yard Rhyne V Sws 3 22 h 31m -
Wessex Water CANNINGTON MARSH LANE Cannington Brook 7 20 h 50m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER COLLEY LANE River Parrett 5 18 h 59m -
Wessex Water STAWELL FORD LANE King Sedgemoors Drain 5 13 h 28m -
Wessex Water WEST HUNTSPILL SLOWAY LANE Unknown 4 11 h 20m -
Wessex Water OTHERY RYE LANE/ SUMMERHEDGE ROAD Sowy River 2 10 h 48m -
Wessex Water HIGHBRIDGE NEWTON STORM TANKS River Brue 3 9 h 9m -
Wessex Water WOOLAVINGTON MEADOW FARM Huntspill River 1 8 h 15m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER EAST QUAY River Parrett 8 8 h 9m -
Wessex Water PURITON DOWNEND TERRACE Un-Named 2 5 h 52m -
Wessex Water WEMBDON COMMON Crowpill Rhyne 3 5 h 48m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER COLLEY LANE River Parrett 4 5 h 35m 509 h
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER CHILTON STREET SALTLANDS River Parrett 8 4 h 16m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER WEST QUAY DRAWBRIDGE River Parrett 2 3 h -
Wessex Water NORTH NEWTON CHURCH ROAD River Tone 1 1 h 45m -
Wessex Water HIGHBRIDGE NEWTON STORM TANKS River Brue 3 1 h 23m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 1 0 h 51m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER BRISTOL ROAD River Parrett 1 0 h 45m -
Wessex Water STAWELL FORD LANE King Sedgemoors Drain 1 0 h 8m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h 339 h
Wessex Water NORTH NEWTON CHURCH ROAD River Tone 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER BLAKE GARDENS River Parrett 0 0 h 4 h
Wessex Water OTHERY RYE LANE/ SUMMERHEDGE ROAD Sowy River 0 0 h -
Wessex Water WESTONZOYLAND LAKEWALL ROAD Pigrhyne 0 0 h -
Wessex Water WESTONZOYLAND HAMROD LANE Hamrod Rhyne 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PAWLETT VICARAGE LANE Parrett Estuary 0 0 h 3 h
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER HORSEY BATH ROAD Bath Road Rhyne 0 0 h -
Wessex Water HIGHBRIDGE NEWTON INLET River Brue 0 0 h 12 h
Wessex Water PURITON DOWNEND TERRACE Un-Named 0 0 h -
Wessex Water WESTONZOYLAND HAMROD LANE Hamrod Rhyne 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BURNHAM-ON-SEA ST ANDREWS SCHOOL LOVE LANE A Local Ditch 0 0 h -
Wessex Water HIGHBRIDGE NEWTON INLET River Brue 0 0 h 414 h
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h 3 h
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BURNHAM-ON-SEA ST ANDREWS SCHOOL LOVE LANE A Local Ditch 0 0 h -
Wessex Water MIDDLEZOY NETHERMOOR ROAD Sowy River 0 0 h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER HORSEY BATH ROAD Bath Road Rhyne 0 0 h 2 h
Wessex Water WEMBDON COMMON Crowpill Rhyne 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER BLAKE GARDENS River Parrett 0 0 h 25 h
Wessex Water MIDDLEZOY NETHERMOOR ROAD Sowy River 0 0 h 583 h
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER WEST QUAY DRAWBRIDGE River Parrett 0 0 h 97 h
Wessex Water PAWLETT VICARAGE LANE Parrett Estuary 0 0 h 3 h
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER TAUNTON ROAD River Parrett 0 0 h 5 h
Wessex Water WESTONZOYLAND LAKEWALL ROAD Pigrhyne 0 0 h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h 50 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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