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Chippenham

Polluted by sewage 458 times in 2025 lasting 3,798 hours

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Live data for Chippenham in 2026

So far this year (as of 5 Sept 2026, 22:15) there has been 3,178 hours of sewage overflows, from 62 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Chippenham in 2025

23 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
458 sewage dumps
3,798 hours duration
That's 5.28 months. On average 1.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Chippenham in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water Abberd Brook THE PONDS PS 70 1,501 98.8
Wessex Water River Avon CHIPPENHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 40 495 99.95
Wessex Water Springs Watercourse RAF LYNEHAM WWTW 24 315 100
Wessex Water River Marden CALNE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 47 299 100
Wessex Water Hancock'S Water WOOTTON BASSETT WWTW 24 265 99.9
Wessex Water Rivers Brook COMPTON BASSETT WWTW 16 192 100
Wessex Water Hardenhuish Brook GASTON ROAD CSO 46 191 100
Wessex Water Unknown MOSSES MILL CSO 2 44 146 100
Wessex Water Unknown BRISTOL ROAD CSO 53 79 100
Wessex Water River Avon WESTMEAD PUMPING STATION 6 66 99.7
Wessex Water Cowage Brook, TOCKENHAM 17 53 99.7
Wessex Water Hancock'S Water WOOTTON BASSETT CSO 14 50 99.9
Wessex Water Bristol Avon LACOCK WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 8 48 100
Wessex Water River Marden PATFORD STREET CSO 10 33 93.9
Wessex Water River Avon MONKTON PARK OFFICES CSO 6 21 100
Wessex Water Byde Mill Brook NETHERCOTE HILL PUMPING STATION 6 21 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws LONG CLOSE CSO 6 5 100
Wessex Water River Marden THE STRAND CSO 10 4 95.1
Wessex Water River Avon CHARTER ROAD CSO 1 3 94.7
Wessex Water River Avon WOOD LANE CSO 7 1 100
Wessex Water Unknown PATFORD ST/BANK OF RIVER MARDEN CSO 1 0 100
Wessex Water River Marden Via Sws WOOD STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon MARY STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 100
Wessex Water Unknown DALLAS ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Marden Via Sws MARKET HILL CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Unknown MOSSES MILL CSO 1 0 0 100
Wessex Water Westbury Park W/C Via Sws NEW ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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