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Chippenham was polluted by sewage 1,099 times in 2023
lasting 10,725 hours - that's 1.24 years!

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Totals for Chippenham in 2023

25 Sites polluted by Wessex Water

1,099 sewage dumps
10,725 h duration

That's 1.24 years! On average 3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Chippenham

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Chippenham 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 28 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 %
Wessex Water	Abberd Brook	THE PONDS PS	133	2,700	99.9
Wessex Water	Bristol Avon	LACOCK WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	92	1,536	100
Wessex Water	River Avon	CHIPPENHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	84	1,219	97.15
Wessex Water	Springs Watercourse	RAF LYNEHAM WWTW	60	1,060	100
Wessex Water	River Marden	CALNE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	114	1,030	99.85
Wessex Water	Hancock'S Water	WOOTTON BASSETT WWTW	56	665	100
Wessex Water	Hardenhuish Brook	GASTON ROAD CSO	82	458	100
Wessex Water	Cowage Brook,	TOCKENHAM	77	445	98.7
Wessex Water	Rivers Brook	COMPTON BASSETT WWTW	30	393	100
Wessex Water	River Avon	WESTMEAD PUMPING STATION	21	300	99.9
Wessex Water	Unknown	MOSSES MILL CSO 2	50	222	99.9
Wessex Water	River Avon	CSO O/S 29 HIGH STREET	69	148	100
Wessex Water	Hancock'S Water	WOOTTON BASSETT CSO	35	125	99.7
Wessex Water	Unknown	BRISTOL ROAD CSO	63	93	99.5
Wessex Water	River Avon Via Sws	LONG CLOSE CSO	42	77	100
Wessex Water	River Marden	PATFORD STREET CSO	25	76	94.2
Wessex Water	River Avon	MONKTON PARK OFFICES CSO	16	75	99.8
Wessex Water	Byde Mill Brook	NETHERCOTE HILL PUMPING STATION	12	55	100
Wessex Water	Westbury Park W/C Via Sws	NEW ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	3	15	99.1
Wessex Water	River Avon	WOOD LANE CSO	7	13	99.8
Wessex Water	River Marden	THE STRAND CSO	22	9	99.8
Wessex Water	Unknown	PATFORD ST/BANK OF RIVER MARDEN CSO	2	1	99.8
Wessex Water	River Avon	CHARTER ROAD CSO	1	0	94.8
Wessex Water	River Marden Via Sws	MARKET HILL CSO	2	0	99.8
Wessex Water	River Marden Via Sws	WOOD STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	1	0	99.8
Wessex Water	Unknown	MOSSES MILL CSO 1	0	0	99.7
Wessex Water	River Avon	MARY STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	99.5
Wessex Water	Unknown	DALLAS ROAD CSO	0	0	99.4

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.

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