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Broadland and Fakenham

Polluted by sewage 29 times in 2025 lasting 136 hours

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Live data for Broadland and Fakenham in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 33 hours of sewage overflows, from 16 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Broadland and Fakenham in 2025

8 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
29 sewage dumps
136 hours duration
That's 5.67 days. 2.4 times a month, over the year

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Broadland and Fakenham 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 %
Anglian Water River Bure - Tidal BELAUGH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 10 95 100
Anglian Water River Bure AYLSHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 6 16 100
Anglian Water River Bure BRICK KILN LANE PUMPING STATION 5 15 99.7
Anglian Water Foulsham Beck River Wensum FOULSHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 2 4 99.7
Anglian Water Fleet Dyke MARSH ROAD P.S 2 2 100
Anglian Water Idb River Bure BUXTON - COLTISHALL ROAD TPS 2 1 98.6
Anglian Water Blackwater Drain REEPHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 1 1 100
Anglian Water River Wensum FAKENHAM NORWICH ROAD CSO 1 0 97.2
Anglian Water River Wensum FAKENHAM (OLD AND NEW) WRC 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Stiffkey GREAT WALSINGHAM STW 0 0 100
Anglian Water Unknown LUSHER RISE STORMWATER SEWER 0 0 98.4

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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