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Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket was polluted by sewage 325 times in 2023
lasting 2,721 hours

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Totals for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket in 2023

15 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

325 sewage dumps
2,721 h duration

That's 3.78 months. 6.2 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket 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 16 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 %
Anglian Water	Tary Of Rattlesden River	GEDDING WRC	46	969	100
Anglian Water	River Sapiston	ELMSWELL WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	85	612	100
Anglian Water	River Sapiston	DRINKSTONE PS	46	424	100
Anglian Water	Stanton River Sapist	STANTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	30	233	100
Anglian Water	Haughley Water	NORTHFIELD EST.	36	217	100
Anglian Water	Haughley Water	PRENTICE ROAD	20	67	100
Anglian Water	River Gipping	STOWMARKET STW	5	50	100
Anglian Water	River Lark	FORNHAM WRC	10	40	100
Anglian Water	Rush Brook	KINGSHALL GREEN PUMPING STATION	4	34	100
Anglian Water	Combs Beck To Rattlesden River	TANNERY ROAD	2	29	100
Anglian Water	River Gipping	STOWMARKET CENTRAL CSO	25	18	99.8
Anglian Water	River Lark	PIGEON LANE PUMPING STATION	8	11	100
Anglian Water	Pakenham Stream	MAYPOLE GREEN SPS	3	7	100
Anglian Water	Barton Mere	MERE FARM	3	3	100
Anglian Water	River Rattlesdon	COMBS FORD TPS	2	2	100
Anglian Water	River Gipping	STOWMARKET-BRIDGE STREET OV	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.

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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