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Chelmsford - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 63 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 3,299 hours , potential overflows 96 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Chelmsford 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 - 41 hours , 744 offline
Feb - 15 hours , 96 potential
Mar - 6 hours , 744 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 720 offline
May - 0 hours , 419 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Anglian Water CHELMSFORD-AVON ROAD SSO River Can 55 62h 11m 96 h
Anglian Water GT BADDOW-BRAMSTON CL OV Baddow Brook 2 0h 59m -
Anglian Water CHELMSFORD-GALLEYWOOD RD SP River Wid 1 0h 13m -
Anglian Water GT BADDOW-BRAMSTON CL OV Baddow Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water CHELMSFORD-BUTTS WAY SP River Wid 0 0h 3,299 h
Anglian Water GT BADDOW HIGH ST/TABORS HL OV Baddow Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water SPRINGFIELD-UPLANDS SP R Chelmer 0 0h -
Anglian Water GT BADDOW HIGH ST/TABORS HL OV Baddow Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water GT BADDOW VICARAGE LANE OV Baddow Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water CHELMSFORD-AVON ROAD SSO River Can 0 0h -
Anglian Water SPRINGFIELD-UPLANDS SP R Chelmer 0 0h -
Anglian Water GT BADDOW VICARAGE LANE OV Baddow Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water CHELMSFORD-GALLEYWOOD RD SP River Wid 0 0h -
Anglian Water CHELMSFORD-BUTTS WAY SP River Wid 0 0h -

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.