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Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,958 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 214 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 980 hours , 66 offline
Feb - 948 hours , 148 offline
Mar - 29 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Anglian Water ELMSWELL STW River Sapiston 54 1,015 h 58m -
Anglian Water GEDDING STW Tary Of Rattlesden River 33 611 h 16m 54 h
Anglian Water COMBS-TANNERY RD SP Combs Beck To Rattlesden River 8 128 h 14m -
Anglian Water ONEHOUSE-NORTHFIELD EST TPS Haughley Water 16 118 h 40m -
Anglian Water STANTON STW Stanton River Sapist 11 63 h 40m -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET STW River Gipping 3 12 h 19m 160 h
Anglian Water STOWMARKET-PRENTICE RD TPS Haughley Water 3 8 h 14m -
Anglian Water FORNHAM ALL STS-PIGEON LN TPS River Lark 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Fornham Water Recycling Centre River Lark 0 0 h -
Anglian Water ONEHOUSE-NORTHFIELD EST TPS Haughley Water 0 0 h -
Anglian Water DRINKSTONE-WOOLPIT RD SP River Sapiston 0 0 h -
Anglian Water COMBS-TANNERY RD SP Combs Beck To Rattlesden River 0 0 h -
Anglian Water GEDDING STW Tary Of Rattlesden River 0 0 h -
Anglian Water COMBS FORD-COMBS FORD TPS River Rattlesdon 0 0 h -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET-BRIDGE ST OV River Gipping 0 0 h -
Anglian Water GT BARTON-MERE FARM TPS Barton Mere 0 0 h -
Anglian Water FORNHAM ALL STS-PIGEON LN TPS River Lark 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Kingshall Green Pumping Station Rush Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET-BRIDGE ST OV River Gipping 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Fornham Water Recycling Centre River Lark 0 0 h -
Anglian Water ELMSWELL STW River Sapiston 0 0 h -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET-CENTRAL OV River Gipping 0 0 h -
Anglian Water COMBS FORD-COMBS FORD TPS River Rattlesdon 0 0 h -
Anglian Water GT BARTON-MERE FARM TPS Barton Mere 0 0 h -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET-CENTRAL OV River Gipping 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BRADFIELD-MAYPOLE GREEN PS Pakenham Stream 0 0 h -
Anglian Water STANTON STW Stanton River Sapist 0 0 h -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET-PRENTICE RD TPS Haughley Water 0 0 h -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET STW River Gipping 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BRADFIELD-MAYPOLE GREEN PS Pakenham Stream 0 0 h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.