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Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 3,516 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 1,266 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 311 hours , 0 offline
Feb - 106 hours
Mar - 37 hours
Apr - 1 hours
May - 0 hours
Jun - 10 hours
Jul - 8 hours , 0 offline
Aug - 1 hours
Sept - 17 hours , 439 offline
Oct - 16 hours , 0 potential
Nov - 2,346 hours , 282 offline
Dec - 659 hours , 16 offline
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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 47 756 h 48m 0 h
Anglian Water STANTON STW Stanton River Sapist 36 616 h 33m -
Anglian Water ONEHOUSE-NORTHFIELD EST TPS Haughley Water 34 566 h 28m -
Anglian Water COMBS-TANNERY RD SP Combs Beck To Rattlesden River 26 520 h 22m -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET-PRENTICE RD TPS Haughley Water 28 512 h 56m 967 h
Anglian Water ELMSWELL STW River Sapiston 11 115 h 48m -
Anglian Water GEDDING STW Tary Of Rattlesden River 8 111 h 30m -
Anglian Water ONEHOUSE-NORTHFIELD EST TPS Haughley Water 8 77 h 41m -
Anglian Water STANTON STW Stanton River Sapist 10 75 h 8m -
Anglian Water GEDDING STW Tary Of Rattlesden River 3 45 h 30m 0 h
Anglian Water COMBS-TANNERY RD SP Combs Beck To Rattlesden River 5 36 h 44m -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET STW River Gipping 3 21 h 51m -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET STW River Gipping 2 14 h 30m 298 h
Anglian Water STOWMARKET-PRENTICE RD TPS Haughley Water 3 12 h 30m -
Anglian Water GT BARTON-MERE FARM TPS Barton Mere 4 9 h 42m -
Anglian Water GT BARTON-MERE FARM TPS Barton Mere 2 9 h 14m -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET-BRIDGE ST OV River Gipping 10 5 h 22m -
Anglian Water Fornham Water Recycling Centre River Lark 1 4 h 15m -
Anglian Water FORNHAM ALL STS-PIGEON LN TPS River Lark 2 2 h 14m -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET-CENTRAL OV River Gipping 2 1 h 15m -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET-CENTRAL OV River Gipping 1 0 h 15m -
Anglian Water Fornham Water Recycling Centre River Lark 2 0 h 11m -
Anglian Water BRADFIELD-MAYPOLE GREEN PS Pakenham Stream 0 0 h -
Anglian Water STOWMARKET-BRIDGE ST OV River Gipping 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Kingshall Green Pumping Station Rush Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water DRINKSTONE-WOOLPIT RD SP River Sapiston 0 0 h -
Anglian Water COMBS FORD-COMBS FORD TPS River Rattlesdon 0 0 h -
Anglian Water COMBS FORD-COMBS FORD TPS River Rattlesdon 0 0 h -
Anglian Water FORNHAM ALL STS-PIGEON LN TPS River Lark 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.