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Harwich and North Essex - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,289 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 9,314 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Harwich and North Essex for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 303 hours
Feb - 50 hours
Mar - 6 hours
Apr - 9 hours
May - 46 hours
Jun - 54 hours
Jul - 95 hours , 245 offline
Aug - 91 hours , 1,864 offline
Sept - 17 hours , 2,193 offline
Oct - 53 hours , 1 potential
Nov - 439 hours , 1,834 offline
Dec - 122 hours , 962 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Anglian Water Colchester Water Recycling Centre Colne Estuary 36 554h 34m -
Anglian Water WIVENHOE-PHILLIP RD OV Tidal River Colne 29 172h 35m -
Anglian Water EIGHT ASH GREEN-FORD ST TPS River Colne 18 127h 50m -
Anglian Water Great Bromley Water Recycling Centre Bromley Brook 10 102h 40m -
Anglian Water W BERGHOLT STW River Colne 4 76h 42m 1,437 h
Anglian Water Colchester - Rowhedge Regent Court Combined Sewer Overflow River Colne 17 46h 1m -
Anglian Water EIGHT ASH GREEN STW River Colne 6 25h 37m -
Anglian Water MANNINGTREE STW Wignall Brook Stour Estuary 7 16h 58m 1,780 h
Anglian Water COLCHESTER-HAVEN RD OV Tidal River Colne 11 13h 30m -
Anglian Water Colchester Water Recycling Centre Colne Estuary 4 12h 38m -
Anglian Water COLCHESTER-BOURNE MILL OV Bourne Brook 19 12h 29m -
Anglian Water GT HORKESLEY-IVY LODGE R SP Horkesley Black Brook 1 11h 21m -
Anglian Water COLCHESTER STW Colne Estuary 10 10h 17m -
Anglian Water HARWICH AND DOVERCOURT STW Tidal River Stour 3 9h 33m -
Anglian Water EIGHT ASH GREEN-FORD ST TPS River Colne 1 8h 30m -
Anglian Water West Mersea Water Recycling Centre Blackwater Estuary 1 8h 13m 3,282 h
Anglian Water LAWFORD-WIGNALL ST SP Wignall Brook 1 8h 5m -
Anglian Water DEDHAM STW Dedham Mill Tail- Rv Stour 2 7h 46m -
Anglian Water Brightlingsea Overflow Lower Park Road West Dyke 21 7h 36m -
Anglian Water Colchester - Rowhedge Regent Court Combined Sewer Overflow River Colne 2 7h -
Anglian Water Brightlingsea West Dyke Terminal Pumping Station West Dyke 3 6h 33m 561 h
Anglian Water Brightlingsea Station Road Combined Sewer Overflow West Dyke 11 6h 7m 1 h
Anglian Water COLCHESTER STW Colne Estuary 7 5h 50m -
Anglian Water THORRINGTON STW Tove 3 5h 44m -
Anglian Water HARWICH AND DOVERCOURT STW Tidal River Stour 9 5h 23m -
Anglian Water LAWFORD-WIGNALL ST SP Wignall Brook 2 4h 44m -
Anglian Water Brightlingsea Overflow (Bellfld 35) West Dyke 7 3h 45m -
Anglian Water Brightlingsea - Spring Road Combined Sewer Overflow West Dyke 7 2h 42m -
Anglian Water DEDHAM STW Dedham Mill Tail- Rv Stour 1 2h -
Anglian Water HARWICH AND DOVERCOURT STW Tidal River Stour 4 1h 59m -
Anglian Water COLCHESTER-HAVEN RD OV Tidal River Colne 1 1h -
Anglian Water EIGHT ASH GREEN STW River Colne 1 1h -
Anglian Water BRIGHTLINGSEA-SAMPSONS RD SP Unnamed Brightlingsea Bro 2 1h -
Anglian Water Colchester - Rowhedge Albion Street Combined Sewer Overflow River Colne 1 0h 30m -
Anglian Water MANNINGTREE STW Wignall Brook Stour Estuary 1 0h 29m -
Anglian Water COLCHESTER STW Colne Estuary 1 0h 15m -
Anglian Water Brightlingsea Overflow Lower Park Road West Dyke 1 0h 15m -
Anglian Water Brightlingsea Overflow (Western Road) Community Centre West Dyke 1 0h 15m -
Anglian Water COLCHESTER-BOURNE MILL OV Bourne Brook 1 0h 14m -
Anglian Water EIGHT ASH GREEN-HEATHFIELDS SP River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water W BERGHOLT STW River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water Brightlingsea Station Road Combined Sewer Overflow West Dyke 0 0h -
Anglian Water Dovercourt - Low Road Pumping Station South Hall Creek 0 0h -
Anglian Water BRIGHTLINGSEA-SAMPSONS RD SP Unnamed Brightlingsea Bro 0 0h -
Anglian Water THORRINGTON WRC Ouse 0 0h -
Anglian Water ELMSTEAD-HOLLY WY THTCHRS D SP Frating Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water EIGHT ASH GREEN-HEATHFIELDS SP River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water Brightlingsea Overflow (Bellfld 35) West Dyke 0 0h -
Anglian Water WIVENHOE-THE FOLLY OV Tidal River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water Brightlingsea - Spring Road Combined Sewer Overflow West Dyke 0 0h -
Anglian Water GT HORKESLEY-IVY LODGE R SP Horkesley Black Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water Mistley, School Lane CSO River Stour 0 0h 1,089 h
Anglian Water Brightlingsea Overflow (Western Road) Community Centre West Dyke 0 0h -
Anglian Water West Mersea Water Recycling Centre Blackwater Estuary 0 0h 1,162 h
Anglian Water WIVENHOE-PHILLIP RD OV Tidal River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water Great Bromley Water Recycling Centre Bromley Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water Rowhedge - High Street Pumping Station Birch Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water HARWICH AND DOVERCOURT STW Tidal River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water WIVENHOE-THE FOLLY OV Tidal River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water Rowhedge - High Street Pumping Station Birch Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water THORRINGTON WRC Ouse 0 0h -
Anglian Water Colchester - Rowhedge Albion Street Combined Sewer Overflow River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water Brightlingsea West Dyke Terminal Pumping Station West Dyke 0 0h -
Anglian Water THORRINGTON STW Tove 0 0h -
Anglian Water Mistley, School Lane CSO River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water COLCHESTER STW Colne Estuary 0 0h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.