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Bristol North East

Polluted by sewage 591 times in 2025 lasting 1,076 hours

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Live data for Bristol North East in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 471 hours of sewage overflows, from 71 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Bristol North East in 2025

32 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
591 sewage dumps
1,076 hours duration
That's 1.49 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bristol North East 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 %
Wessex Water Horfield Brook MULLER ROAD CSO 98 375 99.8
Wessex Water Horfield Brook WORDSWORTH ROAD ATTENUATION TANK 59 231 100
Wessex Water Warmley Brook STATION ROAD CSO 16 77 100
Wessex Water Horfield Brook OAKLEY ROAD CSO 45 54 100
Wessex Water Warmley Brook Via Sws 43 NEW CHELTENHAM ROAD CSO 50 49 97.5
Wessex Water Fishponds Brook Via Sws FOREST ROAD CSO 16 45 100
Wessex Water River Frome EASTVILLE PARK CSO 13 45 100
Wessex Water Horfield Brook Via Sws 24 ROWLANDSON GARDENS CSO 11 36 100
Wessex Water Warmley Brook Via Sws IRVING CLOSE CSO 46 32 100
Wessex Water Siston Brook Via Sws 42 ORCHARD VALE CSO 30 23 100
Wessex Water River Frome FRENCHAY PARK ROAD CSO 11 15 100
Wessex Water Horfield Brook Via Sws LANDSEER AVENUE CSO 9 15 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws SHEPPARD ROAD CSO 2 10 100
Wessex Water Strad Brook Via Sws WOOD ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 19 9 100
Wessex Water River Frome STAPLETON RD AND GLENFROME RD CSO 27 8 95.8
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws GREENBANK VIEW CSO 9 6 98
Wessex Water Coombe Brook Via Sws 85 ROSE GREEN ROAD CSO 19 6 100
Wessex Water Warmley Brook CSO O/S 23/25 NEW CHELTENHAM ROAD 16 5 91.7
Wessex Water Coombe Brook Via Sws FOUNDARY LANE CSO 3 4 96.7
Wessex Water River Frome MULLER ROAD CSO 13 4 100
Wessex Water Warmley Brook Via Sws 48 DOWNEND ROAD CSO 14 3 100
Wessex Water Warmley Brook Via Sws HOLLY HILL ROAD CSO 6 3 100
Wessex Water Warmley Brook 20 NEW CHELTENHAM ROAD CSO 10 2 99.8
Wessex Water River Avon BROOK ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 15 2 100
Wessex Water Coombe Brook OUTSIDE 63 MOORLANDS ROAD 10 1 96.8
Wessex Water Coombe Brook SPEEDWELL ROAD CSO 5 0 100
Wessex Water Warmley Brook Via Sws 84 NEW CHELTENHAM ROAD CSO 9 0 96.1
Wessex Water Siston Brook Via Sws ORCHARD ROAD CSO 5 0 95.6
Wessex Water Warmley Brook Via Sws 170 NEW CHELTENHAM ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Wessex Water Fishponds Brook FILWOOD ROAD NO.2 CSO 2 0 95.8
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws 39 SPEEDWELL ROAD CSO 1 0 98.4
Wessex Water River Frome FRENCHAY PARK ROAD CSO 1 0 95.5
Wessex Water Fishponds Brook Via Sws 31 GROVE ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Fishponds Brook 43 GROVE ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Frome BLACKBERRY HILL CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Frome BRENTRY ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon BROOK ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Fishponds Brook Via Sws FILWOOD ROAD 1 CSO 0 0 98.4
Wessex Water Fishponds Brook Via Sws FISHPONDS STORM RETENTION TANK CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Fishponds Brook GROVE ROAD CSO 0 0 97.2
Wessex Water Warmley Brook Via Sws KINGSHOLME ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Coombe Brook Via Sws LODGE CAUSEWAY CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Coombe Brook Via Sws MAGGS LANE 1 CSO 0 0 95.7
Wessex Water Coombe Brook Via Sws MAGGS LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 95.8
Wessex Water Warmley Brook STATION ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Warmley Brook STORAGE TANK OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Wessex Water Horfield Brook TORTWORTH ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Conham Vale Stream Via Sws WOODSIDE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OF 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

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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