Chippenham was polluted by sewage 1,352 times in 2023
lasting 12,116 hours - that's 1.4 years!

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Totals for Chippenham in 2023

31 Sites polluted by Wessex Water

1,352 sewage dumps
12,116 h duration

That's 1.4 years! On average 3.7 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 34 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	River Avon	MELKSHAM WWTW	115	1,723	99.65
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	Clackers Brook	SCOUT HUT CSO	83	973	99.9
Wessex Water	Berryfield Stream	BOWERHILL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK	84	889	99.95
Wessex Water	Bristol Avon	FRESHFORD WRC	57	753	100
Wessex Water	South Brook	SHAW C OF E SCHOOL CSO	68	591	100
Wessex Water	River Avon	THE STAR PUMPING STATION	70	530	100
Wessex Water	River Frome	WESTWOOD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	33	483	100
Wessex Water	Hardenhuish Brook	GASTON ROAD CSO	82	458	100
Wessex Water	Chalfield Brook	SOUTH WRAXALL STW	32	436	99.9
Wessex Water	River Avon	WESTMEAD PUMPING STATION	21	300	99.9
Wessex Water	Unknown	THE GREEN PUMPING STATION	25	274	100
Wessex Water	Semington Brook	SEMINGTON BROOK PUMPING STATION	23	259	100
Wessex Water	River Avon	POUND LANE CSO	58	237	99.9
Wessex Water	River Avon	WINSLEY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	22	173	100
Wessex Water	Unknown	SEMINGTON ROAD PUMPING STATION	18	160	100
Wessex Water	River Avon	CSO O/S 29 HIGH STREET	69	148	100
Wessex Water	River Avon	SEMINGTON ROAD CSO	33	136	100
Wessex Water	River Avon	SILVER STREET CSO	19	120	98.9
Wessex Water	River Avon	BRADFORD ON AVON WWTW	20	115	99.85
Wessex Water	Unknown	BRISTOL ROAD CSO	63	93	99.5
Wessex Water	Unknown	CURTIS ORCHARD PUMPING STATION	11	79	100
Wessex Water	River Avon Via Sws	LONG CLOSE CSO	42	77	100
Wessex Water	River Avon	MONKTON PARK OFFICES CSO	16	75	99.8
Wessex Water	River Avon	MARKET STREET CSO	56	70	99.9
Wessex Water	River Avon	BARTON FARM CSO	8	64	100
Wessex Water	River Avon	WOOLLEY STREET CSO	28	63	99.5
Wessex Water	Byde Mill Brook	NETHERCOTE HILL PUMPING STATION	12	55	100
Wessex Water	River Avon	WOOD LANE CSO	7	13	99.8
Wessex Water	River Avon	CHARTER ROAD CSO	1	0	94.8
Wessex Water	River Avon	MARY STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	99.5
Wessex Water	Unknown	DALLAS ROAD CSO	0	0	99.4
Wessex Water	Unknown	SEMINGTON ROUNDABOUT	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.

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