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Clacton

Polluted by sewage 232 times in 2025 lasting 796 hours

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Live data for Clacton in 2026

So far this year (as of 5 Sept 2026, 22:15) there has been 944 hours of sewage overflows, from 54 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Clacton in 2025

14 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
232 sewage dumps
796 hours duration
That's 1.11 months. 4.5 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Clacton 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 %
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON (HOLLAND HAVEN) WRC 66 274 100
Anglian Water North Sea JAYWICK WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 52 186 100
Anglian Water Unknown WILLOW WALK PS 22 95 100
Anglian Water Foulton Hall Ditch LITTLE OAKLEY SPS 18 47 100
Anglian Water River Ramsey GREAT OAKLEY SPARROWS CORNER CPS 9 45 100
Anglian Water Borrow Or Ray Creek ST OSYTH STW 5 40 99.9
Anglian Water Kirby Brook FRINTON UPPER 2ND AV/THE CLOSE CSO 17 33 99.9
Anglian Water St. Osyth Creek ST OSYTH POINT CLEAR ROAD CSO 6 32 99.1
Anglian Water Marsh House Ditch KIRBY MAIN MALTINGS PUMPING STATION 3 19 100
Anglian Water Kirby Brook HOLLAND ROAD/SECOND AVENUE 8 11 100
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON VICTORIA ROAD CSO 20 7 95.3
Anglian Water Unnamed River Ramsey WIX ROAD SPS 1 2 100
Anglian Water Holland Brook THORPE ROAD PS 4 1 99.5
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON PARK ROAD/VICARAGE GRD CSO 1 0 99.8
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON COLLINGWOOD RD/WASH LN CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON SEA FRONT / GUNFLEET CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water Bentley Brook GREAT BENTLEY - THORRINGTON ROAD PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Unknown SEWER AT HARWICH ROAD 0 0 98.7

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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