Ipswich was polluted by sewage 279 times in 2023
lasting 711 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Ipswich in 2023

10 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

279 sewage dumps
711 h duration

That's 29.62 days. 5.4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Ipswich

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Ipswich 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 1 of the total 13 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Anglian Water	Tidal River Orwell	IPSWICH-CLIFF QUAY WRC	71	326	100
Anglian Water	River Orwell T	MAIDENHALL STORM OUTFALL	80	175	100
Anglian Water	Tidal River Orwell	STOKE BRIDGE CSO	26	69	96.5
Anglian Water	Orwell Estuary	PORTMANS WALK TANK PUMPING STATION	21	35	53.85
Anglian Water	River Orwell	IPSWICH-WHERSTEAD ROAD PS	37	30	100
Anglian Water	River Orwell	IPSWICH-CLIFF QUAY WRC	7	27	100
Anglian Water	River Orwell	DOCK STREET PUMPING STATION	12	16	53.9
Anglian Water	River Orwell	YARMOUTH ROAD CSO	18	14	97.3
Anglian Water	River Orwell	IPSWICH-CLIFF QUAY WRC	4	11	100
Anglian Water	River Orwell	LONDON RD/HADLEIGH RD - MH8504	3	3	100
Anglian Water	River Orwell	IPSWICH WOLSEY STREET PS	0	0	0
Anglian Water	River Gipping	RIVERSIDE ROAD CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Gipping	HADLEIGH ROAD 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.

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