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Chelmsford was polluted by sewage 84 times in 2023
lasting 532 hours

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Totals for Chelmsford in 2023

7 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

84 sewage dumps
532 h duration

That's 22.17 days. 1.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Chelmsford

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Chelmsford 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 10 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	River Can	AVON RD SSO CHELMSFORD	14	265	100
Anglian Water	Blackwater Est	CHELMSFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	34	229	100
Anglian Water	Baddow Brook	GREAT BADDOW - BRAMSTON CLOSE CSO	11	12	100
Anglian Water	R Chelmer	UPLANDS DRIVE	7	11	100
Anglian Water	One Bridge Brook	CHELMSFORD - N MLBN CHIGNAL ROAD PS	4	8	100
Anglian Water	Baddow Brook	GT BADDOW HIGH STREET TABORS	8	3	100
Anglian Water	River Wid	CHELMSFORD-GALLEYWOOD ROAD PS	6	2	91.3
Anglian Water	Baddow Brook	VICARAGE LA GT BADDOW	0	0	100
Anglian Water	R Chelmer	SPRINGFIELD - OAK LODGE SP	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Wid	CHELMSFORD-BUTTS WAY PS	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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