Colchester was polluted by sewage 292 times in 2024
lasting 572 hours

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Live data for Colchester in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:15 PM) there has been 366 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Colchester in 2024
9 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
292 sewage dumps
572 h duration
That's 23.83 days. 5.6 times a week, on average
Change Over Time
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Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Colchester, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Colchester in 2024. 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 10 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 %
Anglian Water Holland Brook COLCHESTER ST ALBANS ROAD CSO 55 345 97.8
Anglian Water Unknown SPORTS CENTRE MILL RD. 122 156 98.83
Anglian Water Tendring Streams SPORTS CENTRE MILL RD. 65 49 98.18
Anglian Water Tidal River Colne COLCHESTER HUNTING GATE CSO 9 5 100
Anglian Water River Colne COLCHESTER-EAST BAY MAIN INT CSO 8 4 100
Anglian Water River Colne HYTHE BRIDGE 17 4 100
Anglian Water Tendring Stream SPORTS CENTRE MILL RD. 8 3 99.65
Anglian Water River Colne COLCHESTER-EAST BR (EAST) CSO OV 5 2 100
Anglian Water River Colne COLCHESTER-SPRING LANE CSO 3 1 100
Anglian Water Salary Brook COLCHESTER - SHEARWATER MEWS CSO 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.

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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