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Epping Forest was polluted by sewage 178 times in 2023
lasting 957 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Totals for Epping Forest in 2023

5 Sites polluted by Thames Water

178 sewage dumps
957 h duration

That's 1.33 months. 3.4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Epping Forest

Daily Data Since 2023

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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Epping Forest 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 6 of the total 11 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 6 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Thames Water	Cripsey Brook	THORNWOOD WWTW	68	633	99.7
Thames Water	River Roding	NEW STORM TANKS AT CASCADE ROAD, BU	57	247	99.2
Thames Water	Overflow Brook	ROUS ROAD,	20	50	91.5
Thames Water	Chigwell Brook	Brook Way, Chigwell	17	14	95.5
Thames Water	River Roding	PRINCES AVENUE CSO	16	12	85.4
Thames Water	Loughton Brook	BROOK ROAD,	0	0	0
Thames Water	Cripsey Brook	DUCK LANE,	0	0	0
Thames Water	Roding	New Storm Tanks,Cascade Road,Buckhu	0	0	0
Thames Water	Pyrles Brook	APPLETON ROAD,	0	0	0
Thames Water	Chigwell Brook	DACRE GARDENS,	0	0	0
Thames Water	Little London Brook	STW, MILLERS LANE, CHIGWELL ROW, ES	0	0	0

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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