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Bristol Central - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 375 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 887 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Bristol Central 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 - 33 hours
Feb - 7 hours
Mar - 0 hours , 14 offline
Apr - 5 hours , 264 offline
May - 5 hours
Jun - 9 hours , 0 offline
Jul - 0 hours
Aug - 1 hours
Sept - 69 hours
Oct - 28 hours
Nov - 104 hours , 608 offline
Dec - 111 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Wessex Water BRISTOL PORTWAY NEAR PLIMSOLL BRIDGE (PUMPED) River Avon 13 150 h 20m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL PORTWAY NEAR PLIMSOLL BRIDGE (PUMPED) River Avon 23 106 h 41m 0 h
Wessex Water BRISTOL CRANBROOK ROAD O/S NO.XX Cranbrook Via Sws 25 25 h 33m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL CRANBROOK ROAD O/S NO.XX Cranbrook Via Sws 11 24 h 8m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL PRINCE STREET ROUNDABOUT River Avon 2 13 h 36m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL CUMBERLAND ROAD OLD GAOL SIPHON River Avon Via Sws 2 10 h 30m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL COMMERCIAL ROAD / BEDMIN BRIDGE River Avon 3 8 h 48m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL COMMERCIAL ROAD / BEDMIN BRIDGE River Avon 4 6 h 16m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL BROADMEAD / PENN STREET River Frome Via Sws 1 3 h 56m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL DEVONSHIRE ROAD O/S XX Cranbrook Via Sws 12 3 h 49m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL PRINCE STREET ROUNDABOUT River Avon 1 3 h 30m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL CUMBERLAND ROAD OLD GAOL SIPHON River Avon Via Sws 1 2 h 50m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL HOTWELLS ROAD EAST Floating Harbour 5 2 h 50m 608 h
Wessex Water BRISTOL HOTWELLS ROAD EAST Floating Harbour 2 2 h 16m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL CAIRNS ROAD O/S XX Cranbrook 6 1 h 56m 16 h
Wessex Water BRISTOL WELLINGTON ROAD PLAYGROUND River Frome 2 1 h 48m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL BROADMEAD / PENN STREET River Frome Via Sws 1 1 h 4m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL DEVONSHIRE ROAD O/S XX Cranbrook Via Sws 1 1 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL LINDEN ROAD JNC HOWARD ROAD Cranbrook Via Sws 5 0 h 58m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL HOWARD RD JNC FALLODON WY/HALSBURY RD Cranbrook 5 0 h 56m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL HOTWELLS ROAD APPROX NO XXX Bristol Frome Floating Harbour 2 0 h 48m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL CRANBROOK ROAD O/S NO 192 Cranbrook Brook Via Sws 2 0 h 44m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL CLARE STREET River Avon Via Sws 1 0 h 32m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL CRANBROOK ROAD O/S NO 192 Cranbrook Brook Via Sws 3 0 h 24m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL HOTWELLS ROAD APPROX NO XXX Bristol Frome Floating Harbour 1 0 h 22m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL CAIRNS ROAD O/S XX Cranbrook 1 0 h 16m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL NURSING SCHOOL MARLBOROUGH STREET River Frome 1 0 h 6m -
Wessex Water BRISTOL WELLINGTON ROAD PLAYGROUND River Frome 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL NELSON STREET O/S POLICE STATION River Frome 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL BOND STREET O/S CAR PARK River Frome 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL CLARE STREET River Avon Via Sws 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL BROADMEAD / SILVER STREET River Frome 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL ST JAMES BARTON River Frome Via Sws 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL NEWFOUNDLAND ROAD / PRITCHARD STREET River Frome Via Sws 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL SUSSEX PLACE R/O NO XX Groundwater Via Infilt System 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL BROADMEAD ON HUB River Frome 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL LEWIN MEAD O/S GREYFRIARS River Frome Via Sws 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL BROADMEAD ON HUB River Frome 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL BOND STREET O/S CAR PARK River Frome 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL ST OSWALDS ROAD NO X IN BACK GARDEN Cranbrook 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL HOWARD RD JNC FALLODON WY/HALSBURY RD Cranbrook 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL SILVER ST/BROADMEAD River Frome 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL SILVER ST/BROADMEAD River Frome 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL SUSSEX PLACE R/O NO XX Groundwater Via Infilt System 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL ST JAMES BARTON River Frome Via Sws 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL NURSING SCHOOL MARLBOROUGH STREET River Frome 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL LINDEN ROAD JNC HOWARD ROAD Cranbrook Via Sws 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL NELSON STREET O/S POLICE STATION River Frome 0 0 h 262 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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