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Bristol South was polluted by sewage 227 times in 2023
lasting 538 hours

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Totals for Bristol South in 2023
12 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
227 sewage dumps
538 h duration
That's 22.42 days. 4.4 times a week, on average
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bristol South 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 17 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 River Avon ASHTON AVENUE PUMPING STATION 52 152 99.1
Wessex Water Malago HEADLEY ROAD/AVON ROAD 28 94 100
Wessex Water Brislington Brook, Via Sws UNIT 601/601A CENTRAL PARK CSO 36 80 99.7
Wessex Water Malago MANOR WOOD CSO 27 63 89.1
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws PEMBROKE ROAD CSO 21 60 99.7
Wessex Water Malago QUEENS HEAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 8 41 99.9
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws MYRTLE STREET CSO 39 36 99.8
Wessex Water Malago DERHAM ROAD CSO 1 5 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws BEDMINSTER ROAD CSO 8 1 99.9
Wessex Water . Colliters Brook Via Sws OLD MEAD WALK CSO 3 1 91.2
Wessex Water Malago TUGELA ROAD CSO 2 0 99.6
Wessex Water Sheene Road Culvert EAST STREET CSO 2 0 97.4
Wessex Water Malago ST JOHNS LANE CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Malago BEDMINSTER ROAD CYCLE TRACK CSO 0 0 98.9
Wessex Water Malago Via Sws PARSON STREET CSO 0 0 99.9
Wessex Water Pigeonhouse Stream Via Sws FORTFIELD RD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Malago VALE LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 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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