Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket was polluted by sewage 342 times in 2024
lasting 3,525 hours

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Live data for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:30 PM) there has been 455 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket in 2024

15 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

342 sewage dumps
3,525 h duration

That's 4.9 months. 6.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket in 2024. 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	49	1,022	99.6
Anglian Water	River Sapiston	DRINKSTONE PS	55	748	100
Anglian Water	Haughley Water	NORTHFIELD EST.	48	483	99.3
Anglian Water	Stanton River Sapist	STANTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	41	458	90.2
Anglian Water	River Sapiston	ELMSWELL WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	32	276	100
Anglian Water	Rush Brook	KINGSHALL GREEN PUMPING STATION	13	146	100
Anglian Water	River Gipping	STOWMARKET-BRIDGE STREET OV	28	87	100
Anglian Water	River Gipping	STOWMARKET STW	10	64	100
Anglian Water	Combs Beck To Rattlesden River	TANNERY ROAD	8	62	70.9
Anglian Water	Haughley Water	PRENTICE ROAD	22	50	100
Anglian Water	Pakenham Stream	MAYPOLE GREEN SPS	4	48	100
Anglian Water	River Gipping	STOWMARKET CENTRAL CSO	17	40	100
Anglian Water	River Lark	FORNHAM WRC	7	25	74.3
Anglian Water	River Lark	PIGEON LANE PUMPING STATION	5	9	100
Anglian Water	River Rattlesdon	COMBS FORD TPS	3	1	100
Anglian Water	Barton Mere	MERE FARM	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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