Glastonbury and Somerton was polluted by sewage 3,643 times in 2024
lasting 44,705 hours - that's 5.17 years!

Constituency

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Live data for Glastonbury and Somerton in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:15 PM) there has been 19,031 hours of sewage overflows - that's 2.2 years!

Totals for Glastonbury and Somerton in 2024

77 Sites polluted by Wessex Water

3,643 sewage dumps
44,705 h duration

That's 5.17 years! On average 10 times a day

Change Over Time

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Constituencies near Glastonbury and Somerton

Waterways in Glastonbury and Somerton

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Glastonbury and Somerton, 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 Glastonbury and Somerton 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 82 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 Isle	FIVEHEAD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	117	2,431	99.9
Wessex Water	Wellahms Brook	MONTACUTE CSO	150	2,360	99.8
Wessex Water	River Brue	BUTLEIGH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	132	2,305	98.7
Wessex Water	River Cary	SOMERTON STW	113	2,195	99.6
Wessex Water	Cunlease Rhyne	TOOTLE BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	116	1,972	100
Wessex Water	River Cam	FROG LANE PUMPING STATION	104	1,942	99.6
Wessex Water	Crouds Lake	BENNETTS ORCHARD PUMPING STATION	104	1,934	100
Wessex Water	Bull Brook	ROOKERY FARM PS	108	1,851	99.5
Wessex Water	River Cale	CHARLTON MUSGROVE STW	105	1,660	100
Wessex Water	Park Brook	KINGSDON PUMPING STATION	84	1,561	93.8
Wessex Water	River Yeo	MARSTON MAGNA PUMPING STATION	88	1,548	99.8
Wessex Water	River Cam	NORTH CADBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTR	110	1,517	100
Wessex Water	River Cam	SPARKFORD WRC	156	1,488	100
Wessex Water	Bearley Brook	YEOVIL WITHOUT STW	169	1,443	100
Wessex Water	Glast Mill Stream	GLASTONBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	92	1,409	100
Wessex Water	Long Sutton Catchwater	PIBSBURY PUMPING STATION	62	1,376	100
Wessex Water	River Cary	CASTLE CARY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	95	1,351	100
Wessex Water	Parrett And Hinton Meads Brook	MARTOCK WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	112	1,205	99.8
Wessex Water	Witcombe Bottom Drain	TINTINHULL AND ASH WWTW	89	1,185	100
Wessex Water	River Yeo	LIMINGTON PUMPING STATION	70	1,011	100
Wessex Water	Low Ham Rhyne	PITNEY PUMPING STATION	56	938	99.9
Wessex Water	Henover Brook	MILBORNE PORT STW	43	594	99.8
Wessex Water	River Yeo	ILCHESTER WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	50	586	99.8
Wessex Water	Bow Brook	TEMPLECOMBE	62	575	99.9
Wessex Water	River Cary	CHARLTON ADAM PUMPING STATION	50	549	100
Wessex Water	River Cale	WINCANTON WWTW	62	486	99.9
Wessex Water	River Isle	ILTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	62	468	100
Wessex Water	River Parrett	NORTON SUB HAMDON PUMPING STATION	48	448	100
Wessex Water	River Brue Mill Stream	MANHOLE 11, & PORCHESTAL SPS	57	444	99.5
Wessex Water	Barton Brook	BARTON ST DAVID PUMPING STATION	45	397	100
Wessex Water	Glastonbury Mill Stream	NORTHLOAD BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	36	381	100
Wessex Water	River Parrett	KINGSBURY EPISCOPI PUMPING STATION	29	342	100
Wessex Water	Of Kings Moor Main Drain	KNOLE PUMPING STATION	29	342	97.5
Wessex Water	River Cale	HENSTRIDGE PUMPING STATION	42	338	99.9
Wessex Water	River Brue	ALFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	42	313	99.9
Wessex Water	Millstream	LOWER SOMERTON PS	33	277	100
Wessex Water	South Drain	STREET MAIN PS	48	272	100
Wessex Water	Bromers Brook	CHARLTON HORETHORNE WWTW	25	267	99.8
Wessex Water	Bearley Brook	CHILTHORNE DOMER STW	57	265	100
Wessex Water	River Brue	BRUTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	25	253	100
Wessex Water	Wagg Rhyne	WAGG BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	17	240	99.7
Wessex Water	Cad Brook	FROST LANE PUMPING STATION	20	194	100
Wessex Water	Drayton Drain	DUCKS LANE	15	167	99.9
Wessex Water	Drayton Drain	CURRY RIVEL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	16	151	99.8
Wessex Water	Mill Stream	BALTONSBOROUGH(MAIN)PUMPING STATION	26	127	100
Wessex Water	Rivr Sheppey	WELLS ROAD PS	16	120	99.9
Wessex Water	River Yeo	MUDFORD PUMPING STATION	18	118	99.9
Wessex Water	Oxleasedrove Rhyne East	ALLER PUMPING STATION	15	112	99.4
Wessex Water	River Carey	KEINTON MANDEVILLE PS	20	103	100
Wessex Water	Long Sutton Main Drain	UPTON PUMPING STATION	15	99	100
Wessex Water	Mill Stream	ORCHARD LEIGH CSO	21	95	99.2
Wessex Water	River Parrett	THE COAT PUMPING STATION	19	88	100
Wessex Water	River Cale Via Sws	MOOR LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	20	86	92.6
Wessex Water	River Yeo	YEOVILTON WEIR PUMPING STATION	6	72	99.9
Wessex Water	Northstreet Moor Rhyne Via Sws	SOMERTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OF	35	69	99
Wessex Water	River Cam	MILDMAY PLACE CSO	26	67	99.3
Wessex Water	Unknown	MIDDLE BROOKS ROAD PUMPING STATION	8	57	99.9
Wessex Water	South Drain	FARM LANE CSO	19	56	100
Wessex Water	River Brue	ACTIS PUMPING STATION	15	51	99.7
Wessex Water	Wellhams Brook	QUEENS CRESCENT CSO	44	40	99.5
Wessex Water	Bullmead Ditch	HOUNDSWOOD DRIVE PS	7	36	99.8
Wessex Water	River Cale	BENNETTS FIELD CSO	27	32	100
Wessex Water	Bow Brook	TEMPLECOMBE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	23	31	99.5
Wessex Water	Old Rhyne Via Sws	STRODE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	5	29	99.5
Wessex Water	Hinton Meads Brook	HURST COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	22	29	95.7
Wessex Water	Upper River Brue	MILLFIELD SCHOOL PS	4	18	99.9
Wessex Water	South Drain	GLASTON ROAD CSO	9	17	99.5
Wessex Water	Glastonbury Millstream	MANOR HOUSE ROAD CSO	22	16	99.8
Wessex Water	River Yeo	ILCHESTER PUMPING STATION	2	16	100
Wessex Water	Bullmead Ditch	FORD STREAM CSO	12	14	100
Wessex Water	River Cale	BAYFORD PUMPING STATION	5	11	100
Wessex Water	Wellhams Brook	NORTH STREET CSO	23	10	99.7
Wessex Water	River Cam	GREEN LANE PUMPING STATION	3	10	99.9
Wessex Water	Wellhams Brook	THE WELL HOUSE CSO	7	7	99.4
Wessex Water	Bow Brook	SLADES HILL PS	2	1	99.8
Wessex Water	Highway Drain , River Yeo	TRENT VIEW CSO	1	1	82.6
Wessex Water	Mill Brook	COURT HOUSE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	1	0	99.2
Wessex Water	River Stour	PEN MILL PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.6
Wessex Water	River Cary	NEW HILL CSO	0	0	99.8
Wessex Water	Glastonbury Mill Stream	WIRRAL PARK PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	River Cam	SOUTH CADBURY PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.8
Wessex Water	Wagg Drove Rhyne	WAGG DROVE PUMPING STATION	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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