Ipswich was polluted by sewage 338 times in 2024
lasting 908 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Ipswich in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:15 PM) there has been 414 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Ipswich in 2024
11 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
338 sewage dumps
908 h duration
That's 1.26 months. 6.5 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 Ipswich, 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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Daily data is experimental and data is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please inform us of any issue, we will fix.

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Ipswich 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 2 of the total 13 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 2 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water Tidal River Orwell IPSWICH-CLIFF QUAY WRC 61 315 100
Anglian Water River Orwell T MAIDENHALL STORM OUTFALL 78 175 100
Anglian Water River Orwell IPSWICH-CLIFF QUAY WRC 59 163 99.9
Anglian Water Orwell Estuary PORTMANS WALK TANK PUMPING STATION 45 101 99.8
Anglian Water Tidal River Orwell STOKE BRIDGE CSO 25 68 100
Anglian Water River Gipping RIVERSIDE ROAD CSO 8 32 100
Anglian Water River Orwell DOCK STREET PUMPING STATION 20 18 100
Anglian Water River Orwell LONDON RD/HADLEIGH RD - MH8504 17 16 98.3
Anglian Water River Orwell YARMOUTH ROAD CSO 7 8 100
Anglian Water River Orwell IPSWICH-WHERSTEAD ROAD PS 7 4 99.9
Anglian Water River Gipping HADLEIGH ROAD CSO 11 4 98.4
Anglian Water River Orwell IPSWICH WOLSEY STREET PS 0 0 0
Anglian Water River Orwell IPSWICH-CLIFF QUAY WRC 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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